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portada Running the Rapids: From Uttar Pradesh to Ontario (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Editorial
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
242
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
ISBN13
9781843510703

Running the Rapids: From Uttar Pradesh to Ontario (en Inglés)

Kildare Dobbs (Autor) · Lilliput Press · Tapa Blanda

Running the Rapids: From Uttar Pradesh to Ontario (en Inglés) - Dobbs, Kildare

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Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life's journey, marked by frequent detours and diversions, from Asia to old Europe, Africa and the New World, is that of the quintessential post-colonial Western man at large. In Running the Rapids Dobbs becomes voyageur. He takes us from a lamp-lit, big house childhood in 1930s Kilkenny, to college days at Cambridge in thrall to Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, to commando training and naval service protecting Allied convoys from U-boat attack during World War II. Then began his time from 1948 to 1952 as district officer in Tanganyika, where he learnt Swahili beneath the 'immense, unearthly bulk' of Kilimanjaro and was falsely imprisoned for ivory theft. He then moved to Canada to work at Macmillan publishers, co-founding The Tamarack Review and becoming managing editor of Saturday Night magazine from 1965 to 1967. During the seventies he was both columnist and books editor of the Toronto Star. He recounts his friendships with writers Brian Moore, Richard Wright and Mordecai Richler, and with Ronald Searle, Marshall McLuhan and Wilfred Thesiger, among others. And nothing if not uxorious, this modern-day troubadour enters the lists of time and again throughout the narrative, finding his peace the third time around. Dobbs's self-portrait vividly evokes the world of a restless man of letters, Rousseauesque in its foibles and candour, Johnsonianly pungent in its observations, Shandean in its sense of the absurd. 'In memory and imagination', he writes, 'there is no time: all is simultaneous.' This poignant and delightful chronicle sets out to reinforce that perception.

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