Dead As Doornails (eBook)

Anthony Cronin (Autor)

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1999
203 Seiten
The Lilliput Press (Verlag)
9781843512202 (ISBN)

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Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Myles na Gopaleen; but it is also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink, the shortage of sex, the insecurity and begrudgery, the painful limitations of cultural life, and the bittersweet pull of exile. We read of a comical sojourn in France with Behan, and of Cronin's years in London as a literary editor and a friend of the writer Julian Maclaren-Ross and the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. The generation chronicled by Cronin was one of wasted promise. That waste is redressed through the shimmering prose of Dead as Doornails, earning its place in Irish literary history alongside the best works of Behan, Kavanagh and Myles.

Autor

ANTHONY CRONIN was one of Ireland's leading men of letters. He was the author of novels (The Life of Riley, Identity Papers), criticism (A Question of Modernity, Heritage Now), several volumes of poetry (most recently The Minotaur), and acclaimed biographies of Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. He passed away in December 2016.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1976 • 20th century Dublin • Anthony Cronin • artistic community • artistic struggles • begrudgery • Behan • Behan’s legacy • Bohemian Dublin • bohemian lifestyle • Brendan Behan • colourful memoir • Creative Community • cultural critique • cultural frustrat • Cultural Life • Dead as Doornails • Drink • dublin nightlife • Dublin writers • exile • existential crises • France • funny memoir • generation of writers • insecurity • Irish bohemia • Irish culture • Irish drinking culture • Irish expatriates • Irish literary history • Irish literary tradition • Irish Literature • Irish memoir • Irish Writers • Julian Maclaren-Ross • Kavanagh’s legacy • Kitsch • literary circles • literary contemporaries • Literary Dublin • literary editor • literary figures • literary friendships • Literary History • literary memoir • literary nostalgia • literary scene • literary scene of the 1940s • London • Myles’ legacy • Myles na Gopaleen • Patrick Kavanagh • personal account • post-war Dublin • postwar generation • post-war identity • post-war Ireland • Robert Colquhoun • Robert MacBryde • Sex • shimmering prose • Social History • wasted promise
• ISBN-13: 9781843512202 / 9781843512202