Henry Green

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7111-6
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

By mid-career, many successful writers find a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905–1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle into a nice cozy read. Evil, he suggests, can be as instructive as good. Through his use of paradoxical and ambiguous language, his novels bring texture to the flatness of life, making the world seem bigger and closer. We soon stop worrying about what Hitler’s bombs have in store for the Londoners of Caught (1943) and Back (1946) and start thinking about what they have in store for each other. Praised in his lifetime as England’s top fiction author, he is largely overlooked today. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of his work for a new generation of readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolfe, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Wolfe is a curators’ professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The author of more than 20 books, he has also taught in Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Poland and Australia.