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Item Details
| Title:
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NIGHT THOUGHTS
THE SURREAL LIFE OF THE POET DAVID GASCOYNE |
| By: |
Robert Fraser |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£63.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199558140 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199558148 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 February, 2012 |
| Pages: |
488 |
| Description: |
This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France. |
| Synopsis: |
The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his early poems. At eighteen he drafted the manifesto of the English Surrealist Group and at nineteen he published what remains an authoritative account of the international movement. He translated for Salvador Dali and crossed swords with Andre Breton; the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London was largely his brainchild. During the war he toured as an actor, embraced religious existentialism and became, in the words of John Lehmann, 'the most important philosophic poet of our time'. After the war he wrote for radio, painted, cooked, and went mad. The journals he kept during his periods of mental instability are masterpieces of the bizarre. Gascoyne found unexpected happiness in late middle age, emerging as an elder statesman of British poetry. Robert Fraser contends that, through all the twists and turns of his variegated existence, Gascoyne strove for candour and truth of self-expression. With equivalent candour this pioneering biography describes his creative work and multifarious translations, his inconvenient addictions, his tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and in France. |
| Illustrations: |
4 pages colour plates; 8 pages black-and-white plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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