Geoffrey Wagner (1927–2006)
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Werken van Geoffrey Wagner
Fuoco sotto la sabbia 3 exemplaren
Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Wagner, Geoffrey Atheling
- Geboortedatum
- 1927-12-27
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2006-08-21
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
USA - Geboorteplaats
- England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Beroepen
- Professor of English
writer - Relaties
- Browning, Colleen (wife)
- Korte biografie
- Geoffrey Wagner was born in England, but moved to the USA in 1949 with his new bride, painter Colleen Browning. They settled in New York City, where he worked as a Professor of English at a number of universities. He was multi-lingual, and had a wide range of interests, writing erotica of a superior kind as well as a considerable number of novels for the popular market.
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- Populariteit
- #124,899
- Waardering
- 4.0
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- 12
- ISBNs
- 34
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Wagner does a great job of showing how controversial Lewis is. It's not just that some folks like him and some folks don't, but sometimes the very same person both likes him and doesn't. More amazing to me was Wagner's sketches of how Joyce and Lewis were constantly sniping at each other in their books. I have never read Ulysses, never mind Finnegan's Wake, so all that is far out of my realm. But now, sixty years after Wagner's book, Lewis must qualify as obscure while Joyce is anything but. It is a bit shocking to see them treated side by side, not just by Wagner but by each other.
So one thing that amazed me by reading this book is to see how major controversies of one era, e.g. Bergson's philosophy, fade into irrelevance after a hundred years. Another thing that amazed me is how much Wyndham Lewis actually sounds like some of the alt-right or neo-conservative ranters of today. Wyndham Lewis wrote two books on Hitler, the first admiring and the second the reverse. Wagner does a bit of comparison with Ezra Pound's political ideas but doesn't go into great depth. But really, the heated controversies of the 1920s might just be quite close to the heated controversies of the 2010s. The nutty ideas of today will surely fade into irrelevance after another century, but not until they have caused great destruction along the way. Then, having been forgotten, the folks of that future can relive them once again.
Wagner does drag the reader through a lot of detail without providing much of the big picture. There are multi-sentence quotes in French, German, and Latin, with no translations provided. This is a book for scholars. I am no scholar but still I got a lot out of the book. I'm sure that most of the points were flying over my head, but hey that's what I get for diving into the deep end!… (meer)