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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... look at myself now in the light of these old pictures I get a most disagreeable sensation of being nothing but a detail myself . It's like looking at your face painted on one of those vast historical canvases . I look at myself . In ...
... look at myself now in the light of these old pictures I get a most disagreeable sensation of being nothing but a detail myself . It's like looking at your face painted on one of those vast historical canvases . I look at myself . In ...
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... looks at the ' extraordinary collection of scarecrows ' ( 307 ) who have survived the siege , and thinks of how this ... look back and appreciate the difficulties under which his own time was labouring , Coleridge on the literal truth of ...
... looks at the ' extraordinary collection of scarecrows ' ( 307 ) who have survived the siege , and thinks of how this ... look back and appreciate the difficulties under which his own time was labouring , Coleridge on the literal truth of ...
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... look like ' the sails of a windmill ' ( 288 ) suggests both Cervantes's Don Quixote and Sergeant Troy in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ) . Unfortunately , as the narrative shows , Fleury has been overtaken by a change ...
... look like ' the sails of a windmill ' ( 288 ) suggests both Cervantes's Don Quixote and Sergeant Troy in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ) . Unfortunately , as the narrative shows , Fleury has been overtaken by a change ...
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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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