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Three More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice - Couverture souple

Firbank, Ronald

 
9780811209755: Three More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 081120975X ISBN 13 : 9780811209755
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

Synopsis

So cleverly and wittily are the stories told that we sense we belong in the charmed café society of post-1918 Britain, and life seems, as Ernest Jones says in his critical introduction, "a Nirvana in which homosexuals are the ultimate chic and in which... almost everyone turns out to be at least bi-sexual." In Vainglory, Mrs. Shamefoot, who "almost compels a tear," embraces the quest for a cathedral stained-glass window "that should be a miracle of violet glass." In Inclinations, Miss Brookomore, filled with longing for her companion, the "sunny" Miss Mabel Collins, travels to Greece where Mabel, rather treacherously, acquires a husband and baby. And in Caprice, Miss Sinquier flees her rural parents and the comfort of her black slippers ("all over little pearls with filigree butterflies that trembled above her toes") to pursue an acting career in bohemian London. To quote Mrs. Shamefoot describing a novelist clearly meant to be Firbank: "He has such a strange, peculiar style. His work calls to mind a frieze with figures of varying heights trotting all the same way. If one should by chance turn about it's usually merely to stare or to sneer or to make a grimace. Only occasionally his figures care to beckon. And they seldom really touch." Originally published in 1951, Three More Novels by Ronald Firbank is now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) was an acclaimed British novelist whose work was championed by E. M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh. He attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, although he left before receiving a degree. He traveled extensively through Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. He died of lung disease while in Rome in 1926.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081120975X
ISBN 13 
9780811209755
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
431
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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