Goronwy Rees (University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales) - Softcover

Harris, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708316778 ISBN 13: 9780708316771

Verlag: University of Wales Press - IPSUK, 2001

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After gaining an Oxford fellowship at the age of twenty-one, Goronwy Rees (1909-79) went on to write for the Guardian and the Spectator before becoming Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1953. A Marxist intellectual turned cold warrior, who also claimed that &;writing books is the only thing I&;m serious about&;, he became a full-time writer in 1957 following his acrimonious resignation from Aberystwyth over revelations about his friendship with Guy Burgess. This first study of Rees as author sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life.

John Harris also discusses Rees&; complex relationship with Wales and how, although an unwavering advocate of home rule, he was perceived in his native country as being anti-Welsh. Whatever his personal trials, Rees kept up writing, publishing a powerful novel of ideas, a range of non-literary books, and two fine volumes of memoirs blending fictionalised autobiography with acute social analysis.

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Formerly a lecturer in bibliography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, John Harris has edited numerous works by Caradoc Evans and written extensively on Anglo-Welsh publishing history. He is the compiler of A Bibliographical Guide to Twenty-Four Modern Anglo-Welsh Writers (1994) and the editor of Goronwy Rees: Sketches in Autobiography (2001).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Wales Press - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0708316778
• ISBN 13: 9780708316771
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 109
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland