Joyce Cary (1888–1957)
Autore di La bocca della verità
Sull'Autore
Joyce Cary was born as Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1888. Cary studied art in Edinburgh and Paris and law at Oxford, before fighting in West Africa in World War I. He took up writing when injuries and bad health forced him into an early retirement. Cary wrote several mostra altro novels, among them Mister Johnson, using his experiences in Africa as background. Cary has been acclaimed for his skill in creating well-developed plots and credible characterizations and for his unique sense of humor, and is best known for a trilogy that includes the novels Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, and The Horse's Mouth. Cary died in 1957. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: portrait by Eric Kennington
Serie
Opere di Joyce Cary
Marching soldier, 2 copie
Tre modi di peccare : romanzo 2 copie
Time Reading Program - The Horse's Mouth, The Decline of Pleasure, Disraeli, The Man of the Renaissance [4 Book… (1966) 2 copie
The art of fiction 2 copie
The Short Story and You: Englische Lektüre für das 5. Lernjahr, Oberstufe (Klett English Editions) (2009) 2 copie
El curandero 1 copia
Na milost in nemilost 1 copia
Så galt kan det gå 1 copia
Jeg blev aldrig klogere 1 copia
Government Baby 1 copia
The drunken sailor 1 copia
Радость и страх. Рассказы 1 copia
Opere correlate
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 119 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel
- Data di nascita
- 1888-12-07
- Data di morte
- 1957-03-29
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland (birth)
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Derry, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Derry, Ireland (birth)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Paris, France
Montenegro
Nigeria
Cary Castle, Ireland (mostra tutto 7)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (death) - Istruzione
- Clifton College
Oxford University (Trinity College) - Attività lavorative
- Red Cross orderly ( [1912])
Colonial Officer (Nigeria)
novelist
artist - Relazioni
- Cary, Tristram (son)
Kennedy, Margaret (cousin)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Backlisted (1)
Hidden Classics (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Opere correlate
- 11
- Utenti
- 2,866
- Popolarità
- #8,947
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 49
- ISBN
- 140
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 11
Mister Johnson suffers from the "Big Man" syndrome. He imagines wealth and the good things in life are his due because he has a chief clerk's job in a District office of the Nigerian Colonial Service. He is inept; he steals, he borrows irresponsibly, he lies and is a farcical husband.
Meanwhile, the District Officer sees the opportunity of a road building project as a lasting memorial to his term of tenure at his otherwise tedious posting.
All transactions are corrupt in this dusty set-up. Accounts are falsified, money diverted, the roading project brings only overcrowding and no prosperity.
There is no resolution to the colonial divide, and it is Cary's genius that drives home the futility of colonial administration amid the chronically corrupt and mean culture of the native population. The final scenes are a devastating commentary on the whole sorry story.… (altro)