Conversations with Edna O`Brien, Alice Hughes Kersnowski

Автор: Kersnowski Alice Hughes
Название: Conversations with Edna O`Brien
ISBN: 1496820150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496820150
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Описание: Who's afraid of Edna O'Brien? asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O'Brien (b. 1930) saw her early works, starting in 1960 with The Country Girls, banned and burned in Ireland, but often read in secret. Her contemporary work continues to spark debates on the rigors and challenges of Catholic conservatism and the struggle for women to make a place for themselves in the world without anxiety and guilt. The raw nerve of emotion at the heart of her lyrical prose provokes readers, challenges politicians, and proves difficult for critics to place her.In these interviews, O'Brien finds her own critical voice and moves interviewers away from a focus on her life as the ""once infamous Edna"" toward a focus on her works. Parallels between Edna O'Brien and her literary muse and mentor, James Joyce, are often cited in interviews such as Philip Roth's description of The Country Girls as a ""rural Dubliners."" While Joyce is the centerpiece of O'Brien's literary pantheon, allusions to writers such as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, and Woolf become a medium for her critical voice. Conversations with contemporary writers Philip Roth and Glenn Patterson reveal Edna O'Brien's sense of herself as a contemporary writer. The final interview included here, with BBC personality William Crawley at Queen's University Belfast is a synthesis of her acceptance and fame as an Irish writer and an Irish woman and an affirmation of her literary authority.

Автор: McEwan Ian
Название: Conversations with Ian McEwan
ISBN: 1604734205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604734201
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Описание: Collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society.

Автор: Patrick A. Smith
Название: Conversations with Tim O`Brien
ISBN: 1617036781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617036781
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Описание: In addition to detailed discussions of all of Tim O`Brien`s work, the sixteen interviews and profiles in Conversations with Tim O`Brien explore common themes, with subtle differences. Looming large is the experience of Vietnam and its influence as well as O`Brien`s youth in Minnesota and the expectations of a Midwestern upbringing.