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Powysland: The Discovery of John Cowper Powys

Tim Blanchard

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Description:"He produced a whole torrent of books about the magic contained within everyday life, and how to defy the competition and conformity demanded by the modern world.Powysland isn’t a straight biography - it wouldn’t suit him. Instead it explores the places that made the man and his eccentric philosophy, the huge rhapsodic novels and his life as a touring literary prophet. It sets out to discover how he attracted both a fanatical following over the past 100 years, why he’s mattered to so many people then and now - but also became reviled, neglected and forgotten. There’s a binary divide between those who think Powys one of the giants and geniuses of literature - and those who thought he was a nut and really just too much to stomach. Among the fans have been Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, JB Priestley, and more recently Iris Murdoch, Iain Sinclair, Bernard Cornwell, Margaret Drabble and Philip Pullman. American intellectual George Steiner said he’s the only writer in English language we’ve got who can stand comparison with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.On the other side you’ve got a big chunk of the literary establishment, reviewers and academia. Which has meant he’s had no chance of making it into the literary canon.I’ve made my own adventures in Powysland over the past 15 years, joining with the hardcore followers of Powys, visiting the important places to him, trying to figure out how and whether there’s anything to be gained from thinking and living like a Powysian. In a sanitised world, we need Powys. But he's a writer who's running out of readers. This book will be one way to make sure this one-off in literary history, an English eccentric with so much to say about modern angst and disenchantment, isn’t carelessly forgotten."Tim BlanchardWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Powysland: The Discovery of John Cowper Powys. To get started finding Powysland: The Discovery of John Cowper Powys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 314

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Sundial Press

Release: 2018

ISBN: 1908274662

Description: "He produced a whole torrent of books about the magic contained within everyday life, and how to defy the competition and conformity demanded by the modern world.Powysland isn’t a straight biography - it wouldn’t suit him. Instead it explores the places that made the man and his eccentric philosophy, the huge rhapsodic novels and his life as a touring literary prophet. It sets out to discover how he attracted both a fanatical following over the past 100 years, why he’s mattered to so many people then and now - but also became reviled, neglected and forgotten. There’s a binary divide between those who think Powys one of the giants and geniuses of literature - and those who thought he was a nut and really just too much to stomach. Among the fans have been Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, JB Priestley, and more recently Iris Murdoch, Iain Sinclair, Bernard Cornwell, Margaret Drabble and Philip Pullman. American intellectual George Steiner said he’s the only writer in English language we’ve got who can stand comparison with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.On the other side you’ve got a big chunk of the literary establishment, reviewers and academia. Which has meant he’s had no chance of making it into the literary canon.I’ve made my own adventures in Powysland over the past 15 years, joining with the hardcore followers of Powys, visiting the important places to him, trying to figure out how and whether there’s anything to be gained from thinking and living like a Powysian. In a sanitised world, we need Powys. But he's a writer who's running out of readers. This book will be one way to make sure this one-off in literary history, an English eccentric with so much to say about modern angst and disenchantment, isn’t carelessly forgotten."Tim BlanchardWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Powysland: The Discovery of John Cowper Powys. To get started finding Powysland: The Discovery of John Cowper Powys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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