Robert Gibson (1) (1927–)
Autore di The quest of Alain-Fournier
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Opere di Robert Gibson
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gibson, Robert
- Nome legale
- Gibson, Robert Donald
- Data di nascita
- 1927-08-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Hackney, London, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- Professor of French
- Organizzazioni
- University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Utenti
- 32
- Popolarità
- #430,838
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 46
- Lingue
- 1
Gibson's well-researched biography (1953) considers the influences of Henri Alban Fournier's short life on his work. Son of a schoolmaster in Central France, a particularly happy village childhood gained perhaps an increased enchantment in the author's imagination when looked back on later from a series of grim boarding schools. Lonely, yet with unreachably high standards, Fournier's romances all seem to fail when compared to the love of his life - a young lady named Yvonne, whom he sees at an art gallery and with whom he engineers a brief but fruitless meeting. Recollections of his ideal woman beset him for years and inform much of his writing.
One does sometimes feel an urge to shout "for goodness sake, move on! She's married...get a life!" as years down the line Fournier's letters are still full of this woman he passed in the street. And to wonderwhether if Fournier had survived the War (he died in 1914 aged 28)his rather repetitive motifs could have forged an entire literary career. And yet there is certainly something poignant in his words that resonates with most of us.
Gibson considers Fournier "A dreamer who believes fervently in the existence of an ideal other world, and who is forever waiting for intimations of its reality, sows the seeds f everlasting dissatisfaction in his own spirit. He is constantly melancholy because he cannot find his place in the world, and he cannot find his place in the world because of his constant melancholy."… (altro)