The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
Waugh, Evelyn
ISBN 10: 0141180218 ISBN 13: 9780141180212
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1999
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Waugh's frank 'account of my late lunacy' is also his most penetrating self-portrait. The novel began as a therapeutic exercise, written at the suggestion of a psychiatrist. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to keep rheumatism, insomnia and terminal boredom at bay he has been imbibing an unappetising cocktail of bromide, chloral and creme de menthe. In order to improve his health, complete a novel and escape a harsh English winter, he books a passage on the SS Caliban. As the ship cruises slowly towards Rangoon, Pinfold slips gradually into madness.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), is considered chief chronicler of the 'Bright Young Things' and one of the century's most accomplished and funny novelists. His comic vision always had its black side and this darkened after the collapse of his first marriage, achieving moral weight when he converted to Catholicism in 1930.
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Titel: The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold: A ...
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: paperback
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