Tom Stoppard (eBook)

Hermione Lee (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
464 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-31445-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The key book for all time on Tom Stoppard: the biography of our greatest living playwright, by one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, a star in her own right, Hermione Lee. With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity Kendal to John Boorman and Trevor Nunn to Steven Spielberg, Hermione Lee builds a metiucously researched portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Drawing on several years of long, exploratory conversations with Stoppard himself, it tracks his Czech origins and childhood in India to every school and home he's ever lived in, every piece of writing he's ever done, and every play and film he's ever worked on; but in the end this is the story of a complex, elusive and private man, which tells you an enormous amount about him but leaves you, also, with the fascinating mystery of his ultimate unknowability.

Hermione Lee was the President of Wolfson College Oxford from 2008 to 2017 and is a retired professor of English Literature. She has taught at the Universities of Liverpool, York and Oxford, where she held the Goldsmiths' Chair in English from 1998 to 2008. Her work includes acclaimed biographies, all published by Chatto & Windus, of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006) and Penelope Fitzgerald (2013, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography). She has also published books on Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather and Phillip Roth, and she has written about life-writing, in Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing (2005), Biography: a Very Short Introduction (2009), and (co-edited with Kate Kennedy), a collection called Lives of Houses (2020). In 2013 she was made a Dame for services to literature. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.

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The key book for all time on Tom Stoppard: the biography of one of our greatest playwrights, by one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world. With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity Kendal to John Boorman and Trevor Nunn to Steven Spielberg, Hermione Lee builds a meticulously researched portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Drawing on several years of long, exploratory conversations with Stoppard himself, it tracks his Czech origins and childhood in India to every school and home he ever lived in, every piece of writing he ever did, and every play and film he ever worked on; but in the end this is the story of a complex, elusive and private man, which tells you an enormous amount about him but leaves you, also, with the fascinating mystery of his ultimate unknowability.

Rezensionen

What a life! What a narrator! Insightful, thoughtful and witty: just like the plays.

Unputdownable.

Hermione Lee has been allowed to go backstage, enabling her to tell the story in unmatchable detail... It seems unfair that a man of such outrageous gifts should also have been allowed to magic up the perfect biographer to write his life...Her astute accounts of Stoppard's complex creations are among the great strengths of this exceptional biography... It is one of Lee's several triumphs to identify the emotions that drive so much of his work.

Tom Stoppard has always made the most of his fate... All those marvellous plays and now this prodigious biography - how lucky can you get?

Lee's book has the scope of a novel; it is superbly researched and written with a rare empathy and understanding of human nature...This is a hugely impressive work... He is a great playwright, and this is a great biography.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Arcadia • Harold Pinter • Olivier Awards • Shakespeare in Love • The Coast of Utopia • Tom Stoppard • tony awards
• ISBN-10: 0-571-31445-7 / 0571314457
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-31445-4 / 9780571314454