Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965)
Auteur van Mijn beenderen en mijn fluit
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Of mixed Swiss and Creole heritage, Mittelholzer decided at an early age to become a writer. His works represent the personal struggle between a sense of identification with European culture and a sense of identity as a West Indian. He was the first writer of his generation to emigrate from the toon meer West Indies and attempt a career as a serious novelist in England. In his relatively short life, Mittelholzer published 22 novels, as well as other works. Corentyne Thunder (1941) is a traditionally written novel, but it deals with the spiritual schizophrenia of a protagonist torn between two conflicting loyalties. A Morning at the Office (1950) is a coldly objective view of the absurdities of a tightly organized hierarchical colonial society. His Kaywana trilogy---Children of Kaywana (1952), The Harrowing of Hubertus (1954), and Kaywana Blood (1958)---an imaginative account of a proud, violent family---is considered his finest work. Near the end of his life, his works were increasingly concerned with isolation, disintegration, and suicide. Mittelholzer was the first West Indian writer to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing (1952). He burned himself to death in a field in Surrey, England, in 1965. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Edgar Mittelholzer
The aloneness of Mrs. Chatham 3 exemplaren
Sylvia 2 exemplaren
Uncle Paul 2 exemplaren
The Weather Family 2 exemplaren
A Tale of Three Places 1 exemplaar
Savage Destiny 1 exemplaar
Latticed 1 exemplaar
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A Morning at the Office 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Mittelholzer, Edgar Austin
- Geboortedatum
- 1909-12-16
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1965-05-05
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Guyana
- Geboorteplaats
- New Amsterdam, Guyana
- Plaats van overlijden
- England
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- 35
- Ook door
- 1
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- 273
- Populariteit
- #84,854
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 6
- ISBNs
- 43
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The characters are irritating, stupid and shallow. To the extent their personalities exist, they're simply reflective of class, gender and race prejudices with no details and no hint of complication. Apart from the caretaker character Rayburn - who's depicted as a racist stereotype - the other 4 characters are all from the Guyanese elite. The 2 men are smart, brave and strong, the 2 women are stupid, weak and whiny. It's unpleasant to read.
Despite being a relatively short book, it feels extremely padded. Pages are filled with basically the same sort of thing happening over and over, with no new description, no interest. From early on escalation is threatened
And then in the end, suddenly resolution is thrust upon them in a way which involves very minimal contribution from themselves (and the logic of the ghost by the end of the book is basically completely different from at the start). And it involves one of the stupidest ghost origin stories I've ever heard - this guy invoked dark evil forces to
The book is full of misogyny and to a lesser extent racism, but the racism is even more shocking (one character just casually uses the n word). Again, I only carried on reading because I was led to believe there was something deeper here. There really isn't. The setting is unusual but the creepiness potential is squandered in a daft story that doesn't develop any tension and ends stupidly. Bad book.… (meer)