Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J.G. FarrellFour Courts Press, 1997 - 173 halaman Troubled Pleasures is a critical re-examination of the fiction of J.G. Farrell, whose work has suffered a generation of literary eclipse. It argues powerfully for his status as a significant twentieth-century novelist. |
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... human life . But the incipient seriousness of this theme is always undercut by Farrell almost as it is conveyed : after his heart attack in the street , Boris is carried to the hospital recumbent on a stretcher with the potatoes he had ...
... human life . But the incipient seriousness of this theme is always undercut by Farrell almost as it is conveyed : after his heart attack in the street , Boris is carried to the hospital recumbent on a stretcher with the potatoes he had ...
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... human body , a forerunner of Dr Ryan's comment in Troubles that the human body looks so solid but does not last . Like many modernists and postmodernists Farrell vacillates between this view of the human body as organic and not ...
... human body , a forerunner of Dr Ryan's comment in Troubles that the human body looks so solid but does not last . Like many modernists and postmodernists Farrell vacillates between this view of the human body as organic and not ...
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... human is always a reminder of the limits of the human and of the extent of the universe which continually evades human control . By placing themselves centrally and exclusively , and regarding civilization and capital as co - terminous ...
... human is always a reminder of the limits of the human and of the extent of the universe which continually evades human control . By placing themselves centrally and exclusively , and regarding civilization and capital as co - terminous ...
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PREFACE | 9 |
J G Farrell in Context 5 122 104 | 26 |
A Man from Elsewhere and The Lung | 37 |
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