Joseph Furphy (1843–1912)
Autore di Such Is Life
Sull'Autore
When Furphy died in 1912, his major work, Such Is Life (1903), had met with little success. It was not until the 1940s that Australians discovered this masterpiece, and soon it was brought back into print, along with his two other novels - parts that had been excised from Such Is Life, on its mostra altro original publication: Rigby's Romance and The Buln-Buln and the Brolga. Since then Furphy, sometimes called Australia's Mark Twain, has been granted a secure place in Australian literature. He is often credited with turning Australian literature away from realistic and romantic accounts of life in the bush toward a more metaphysical bent. Born to Irish immigrants in an Australian farming area, Furphy at various times worked as a laborer, spent time on the goldfields, and drove a team of oxen. He was not formally educated but a voracious reader. Once he settled in a town in Victoria to work at his brother's foundry, he started contributing items to the famous newspaper The Bulletin and wrote Such Is Life. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Joseph Furphy
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Collins, Tom (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1843-09-26
- Data di morte
- 1912-09-13
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Yering, Victoria, Australia
- Luogo di morte
- Claremont, Western Australia, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Kangaroo Ground, Victoria, Australia
Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
Comoora, Victoria, Australia
Lake Cooper, Victoria, Australia
Hay, New South Wales, Australia
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia (mostra tutto 8)
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Swanbourne, Western Australia, Australia - Attività lavorative
- farmer
bullocky
foundry worker
writer
teamster
gold miner (mostra tutto 7)
novelist - Relazioni
- Baker, Kate (friend)
Franklin, Miles (friend)
Germain, Leonie Celina (wife)
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This is a great, great bk. To people like myself who're acutely aware of how little respect working class intellectuals get in this society, this is a shining example of just how intelligent a working class person can be. This is one of my favorite novels of all time. It was written by a man whose job it was to drive bulls across the Australian countryside. It's full of wry observation about humanity & careful sober philosophy. & thoroughly entertaining to boot. I've even read it TWICE.
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- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 260
- Popolarità
- #88,386
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 55
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1
A scintillating piece of scholarship.… (altro)