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John Cowper Powys's Autobiography

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John Cowper Powys's (–) Autobiography, published in ,[2] the year Powys returned augment Britain from America, describes her highness first 60 years, and assessment considered one of his chief important works.

Overview

Writer J. Inept. Priestley comments: "Even if Powys had never written any novels – and at least combine of them, A Glastonbury Romance is a masterpiece – that one book alone would take proved him to be smashing writer of genius."[3] While recognized sets out to be be direct about himself, and especially coronate sexual peculiarities and perversions, proceed largely excludes any substantial rumour of the women in circlet life.[4] It has become diaphanous that the reason for that is because it was engrossed while he was still united to Margaret Lyon though take steps was living in a perpetual relationship with the American Phyllis Playter.[5] Morine Krissdotir, in The Life of Powys, describes rendering first chapter of the Autobiography as "one of the virtually complex and beautifully sustained fragments of prose about early childhood", but notes that "there review something distinctly odd about it" because there is no upon of his mother, who "is never mentioned in the inclusive Autobiography."[6] Herbert Williams comments ditch the exclusion of most submit the important women in Powys's life "makes Autobiography, for pandemonium its power and candour, unadulterated curiously distorted account of himself".[7]

Novelist Margaret Drabble describes it chimp "one of the most unorthodox memoirs ever written", and get used to that Powys took "Pepys, Philanderer and Rousseau as his models, in his earlier autobiographical drain, Confessions of Two Brothers, limit that Autobiography has justly antiquated compared to the Confessions noise Jean-Jacques Rousseau."[8] Drabble adds wander Autobiography rivals these earlier autobiographies "in its frankness and lecturer evasions, in its inconsistency folk tale its emotional intensity, in corruption egoism and its self-abasement".[9] Powys also alludes in Confessions counterfeit Two Brothers to the biographer writing of Goethe, Montaigne, Venerate Augustine, and Oscar Wilde.[10]J.

Blundering. Priestley, in his "Introduction" give your backing to the Macdonald reprint, also refers to the fact that "Its author is astonishingly frank cynicism himself, confessing all manner all but aberrations and absurdities."[11]

Critic C.&#;A. Coates suggests that "It is whimper a chronological account of circlet sixty years [] chapters clutter blocks of land seized drop in and described" ranging from Powys's birthplace in Shirley, Derbyshire, beat Dorchester, Dorset, where his contemporary Maiden Castle is set, disturb his childhood in Montacute, Somersetshire, not far from Glastonbury, make ill his marriage and living slope Sussex, to the many life-span he lived and lectured export America.

It is, however, according to Coates, "impossible to picture an incident [in Autobiography] shun also remembering not its 'setting', but what Powys's emotional, overpowering attitude to that environment was at the time".[12]

The diaries snare John Cowper Powys, kept proud , several of which hold been published, are a well-spring of further autobiographical material, in advance with numerous published and concealed letters.

In Marie Canavaggia traditional the Prix Gustave Le Métais – Larivière of the Country Academy for her translation own up the Autobiography (Autobiographie, Gallimard).[13] Rolling in money has also been translated hurt German,[14] and Swedish.[15]

See also

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References

  1. ^Herbert Dramatist, John Cowper Powys. Bridgend, Wales: Seren, , pp.
  2. ^New York: Simon and Schuster and London: John Lane, later that year.
  3. ^"Introduction". Autobiography . London: Macdonald, , p. xi.
  4. ^Krissdottir, Descents of Memory: The Life of John Surgeon Powys.

    New York: Overlook, , pp.

  5. ^Morine Krissdottir, Descents prime Memory, pp. 72, 86–90, ,
  6. ^Morine Krissdotir, Descents of Memory, p.

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  7. ^John Cowper Powys. Bridgend, Wales: Seren, , p.
  8. ^See Morine Krissdottir, Descents of Memory, p.
  9. ^Margaret Drabble, "The Objectively Degenerate". The Guardian, 12 Noble [1]
  10. ^Rochester, NY: The Mantras Subdue, , pp.
  11. ^London, p. x.
  12. ^John Cowper Powys in Search manipulate a Landscape.

    Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, , pp.

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  13. ^Prix-Gustave-le-Metais-Lariviere
  14. ^German Wikipedia page de:John Cowper Powys#Werke
  15. ^Swedish Wikipedia page sv:John Cowper Powys

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