Works on Paper is a selection by one of today's leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a century--mainly on the craft of biography and autobiography, but also covering what Michael Holroyd describes as his "enthusiasms and alibis".
Opening with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing, the book goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp--to which he adds some adventures of his own, in particular an important and unpublished piece The Making of GBS, a riveting story of internecine literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics.Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and educated at Eton College. His lives of Hugh Kingsmill, Lyton Strachey, Augustus John and George Bernard Shaw have established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times. His family autobiography, Basil Street Blues (1999) garnered the greatest number of non–fiction and end–of–year critics' choices that year. A past chairman of the Society of Authors, the Royal Society of Literature and Book Trust, past president of English PEN and a former member of the Arts Council, Michael Holroyd has lectured around the world for the British Council and at literary festivals. He is married to the novelist Margaret Drabble and lives in London and Somerset.
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Etat : Como nuevo. : En esta colección de ensayos, Michael Holroyd, uno de los biógrafos más destacados de la actualidad, reflexiona sobre el arte de la biografía y la autobiografía. A través de sus conferencias y reseñas escritas a lo largo de un cuarto de siglo, Holroyd explora la ética y los valores de la escritura de no ficción, examinando el trabajo de biógrafos contemporáneos y la relación entre biografía y ficción. El libro también incluye un análisis de autobiografías extravagantes y una mirada a las propias experiencias de Holroyd en el mundo literario. EAN: 9781619022768 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography Autor: Michael Holroyd Editorial: Counterpoint LLC Idioma: en Páginas: 336 Formato: tapa blanda. N° de réf. du vendeur Happ-2022-Jan-12-141932
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