A GENTLEMAN OF PLEASURE
Busby Brian
Oprawa:
TWARDA
Wydawca:
McGillQueens University Press
Data premiery:
2011-03-14
ISBN:
9780773538184
Opis produktu
DIVBrian Busby is an independent scholar and the author of several books including Character Parts: Whos Really Who in CanLit./DIVDIVJohn Glassco (19091981) holds a unique position in Canadian letters and a somewhat notorious reputation throughout the world. He is best known for his Memoirs of Montparnasse the controversial chronicle of his youthful adventures and encounters with celebrities in the Paris of James Joyce Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Less known are his poetry his instrumental role in the foundation of modern translation and his numerous and widely popular works of pornography./DIVDIVA Gentleman of Pleasure not only spans Glasscos life but delves into his background as a member of a once prominent and powerful Montreal family. In addition to Glasscos readily available work Brian Busby draws on pseudonymous writings published as a McGill student as well as unpublished and previously unknown poems letters and journal entries to detail a vibrant life while pulling back the curtain on Glasscos sexuality and unconventional tastes. In a lively account of a man given to deception who took delight in hoaxes Busby manages to substantiate many of the often unreliable statements Glassco made about his life and work. A Gentleman of Pleasure is a remarkable biography that captures the knowable truth about a fascinatingly complex and secretive man./DIVDIVOriginal and richly detailed A Gentleman of Pleasure gives John Glassco the audience he deserves. Andrew Lesk University of Toronto/DIVDIVBlackleather dandy and elegant martinisipping beat John Glassco was a oneman literary underground. Impeccable in style and provocative in intent his pornography is poetic his poetry is arty but all his writing has the precision and grace of bea/DIVDIVIn his own elegant prose and with a profound appreciation of his subjects life and work Brian Busby introduces us to the life the times and the writings of a man who was not merely a gentleman of letters and pleasure but also a fabulist of the first /DIVDIVBrian Busby is an independent scholar and the author of several books including Character Parts: Whos Really Who in CanLit./DIVData Publikacji: 2011-03-14
Wymiary: 241 mm 165 mm
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