Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher:
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Rainbearers
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448210585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
As a novelist, biographer, editor, and screenwriter, Nicholas Mosley has always been concerned with the central paradox of writing: if by definition fiction is untrue, and biography never complete, is there a form that will enable a writer to get at the truth of a life? In Efforts at Truth Mosley scrutinizes his own life and work, but examines them as a curious observer, fascinated by the constant interaction of reality and the written word. As a life, it has been colorful, in settings ranging from the West Indies to a remote Welsh hill farm, from war action in Italy to battles with Hollywood moguls, from the Colony Room to the House of Lords. In print, the range has been as wide: editor of a controversial religious magazine, author of the acclaimed novel series Catastrophe Practice, screenwriter of his own work with Joe Losey and John Frankenheimer, biographer of his notorious father Oswald Mosley, and in 1990, winner of the Whitbread Award for his novel Hopeful Monsters.
Assassins
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As one of the characters in "Assassins" says, "Tolstoy was right, you can't beat the Gods. It's the small things - the warp and woof - that make up the pattern. And how much influence do we have over the small? Now that's a theme for a modern writer." And Nicholas Mosley is this writer. Part political thriller and part love story, "Assassins" explores the "small things" that give shape and meaning to the "big events."
Paradox of Freedom
Author: Shiva RahbaranPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564784886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
As the first book-length study of Nicholas Mosley, "The Paradox of Freedom" combines a discussion of the author's incredible biography with an investigation of his writing, nearly all of which is published by Dalkey Archive Press. The son of Oswald Mosley (the leader of Britain's fascistic Blackshirts), a British Lord, a Christian convert, a war veteran, a voracious reader, and an important thinker, Nicholas Mosley has, this book argues, employed all of these experiences and ideas in novels and memoirs that seek to describe the paradoxical nature of freedom: how can man be free when limiting structures are necessary? Can it be achieved, and how? The answer lies in the books themselves, in the ways telling and re-telling stories allows one to escape the seemingly logical bounderies of life and discover new meanings and possibilities. This is a much-needed companion to the work of one of Britain's most important post-War writers.
Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater
Author: Fran MasonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442276207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.
The Hesperides Tree
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning?"Hopeful Monsters," Nicholas Mosley's?"The Hesperides Tree"?tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study--biology and literature--to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.
Hopeful Monsters
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
"Hopeful Monsters is a tour de force of intellect and eros - one in which Albert Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden party. It is a love story in which a young English physicist and a German-Jewish anthropologist pursue each other across landscapes that range from Hitler's Germany to Los Alamos on the eve of the atomic age. It is also a pyrotechnically accomplished novel of ideas in which communism, psychoanalytic theory, uncertainty, and relativity attain visceral emotional force and help us understand the cataclysms of the twentieth century."--Jacket.
Paradoxes of Peace, Or, The Presence of Infinity
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should inform them--custom? need? duty? ambition? desire? Forces pull in different directions--fidelity versus adventurousness, probity versus fun. During the war, Mosley found himself having to combine fondness for his father, Oswald Mosley, with the need to speak out against his post-war politics. In times of peace, his love for his wife and children, too, seemed riddled with paradoxes. He sought answers in Christianity, but came to see organized religion as primarily a social institution. How does caring not become a trap?
Children of Darkness and Light
Author: Nicholas MosleyPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A journalist investigates the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a group of children in England. The site is near a nuclear power station which had an accident. He remembers children having a similar vision during a nuclear accident in Yugoslavia. Is there a connection?
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