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28 de jun. de 1990 · John Bayley, who died in 2015, was the first holder of the Warton chair in English literature at Oxford. He wrote 153 pieces for the LRB, some of which were collected in The Power to Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.His other books include The Romantic Survival, The Characters of Love and studies of Shakespeare, Hardy, Pushkin and Tolstoy.
22 de ene. de 2015 · John Bayley, a British literary scholar who was married for more than 40 years to the novelist Iris Murdoch, and whose intimate memoirs of her descent into Alzheimer’s disease were alternately ...
A Iris Murdoch, que cuenta con biografías en el ámbito británico, nadie va a descubrirla, vital (en líneas generales) ni literariamente. Tampoco John Bayley, por mucho que hubiera sido su marido durante cuarenta años. El papel de éste, por lo tanto, ha de reducirse a iluminar aspectos de las novelas de Murdoch desconocidos del público ...
La obra relata la relación de John Bayley con su esposa Iris Murdoch, desde que se conocieron y a lo largo de los 40 años de su matrimonio. Lejos de ser un diario lineal, Bayley salta de un recuerdo a otro, y nos va empapando poco a poco del tipo tan particular de relación que establecieron, la enorme personalidad de Iris, los momentos ...
24 de mar. de 1994 · John Bayley, who died in 2015, was the first holder of the Warton chair in English literature at Oxford. He wrote 153 pieces for the LRB, some of which were collected in The Power to Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.His other books include The Romantic Survival, The Characters of Love and studies of Shakespeare, Hardy, Pushkin and Tolstoy.
12 de ene. de 2015 · John Bayley. Professor John Bayley CBE, FBA, FRSL was a British literary critic and writer. Bayley was born in Lahore, British India, and educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly. After leaving Eton, he went on to take a degree at New College, Oxford.
Beginning his career at Oxford in the 1950s, the ever-incisive John Bayley has been one of the great bulwarks - in the tradition of William Hazlitt and Edmund Wilson - of twentieth-century world literature. His distinctive sensibility has transformed tastes and theories. Here, in The Power of Delight, a volume that has been assembled with the assistance of New Yorker editor Leo Carey, we see ...
