The Island

Robert Creely

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Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Клони към отлично.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: John Calder
Град на издаване:: Plymouth
Година:: 1964 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 190
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Чужда проза

"The Island", the author's first novel, tells the story of the shattering of a man's retreat. Written in a piercing, bone-spare style of prose. A man is utterly revealed through the relentless progress of a situation critical, eventually, to the balance of his mind. * Robert Creeley had made something of a reputation as a poet when he wrote this novel. It is based on his failing marriage to Ann MacKinnon. It is set on an unnamed Spanish island but is obviously Majorca, where Creeley and MacKinnon lived with their three children. Creeley described MacKinnon as dislocated as I was . . . we had the mutual need for somebody to locate so we grabbed on to each other. The Creeley character is called John in this book and the MacKinnon character Joan. Joan was orphaned when quite young and, after a couple of failed attempts, was adopted by a woman who left her a house and some money after she died. It is this that the family is living from. Most of the main characters in this book do not seem happy with their lot. John seems weak and unsure of himself. They live a bit away from the city as John finds city life too complex (The city demanded that he think, when crossing a street, manage change quickly in restaurants and stores generally, or, literally, that he think of such complexities at all since they were for him complexities.) John spends much of his time out drinking with Artie, a permanently impoverished, often loud-mouthed English poet (based on Martin Seymour-Smith). Like John, Martin’s marriage is not going well...