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Antonia White Bücher

    1. März 1899 – 10. April 1980

    Antonia Whites Belletristik erforschte oft die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und familiärer Dynamiken, angesiedelt in außergewöhnlichen persönlichen Umständen. Ihre Charaktere, ob katholisch oder nicht-katholisch, kämpften mit inneren Konflikten und gegenseitigen Einflüssen, die aus ihrem Hintergrund und unvollständigem Selbstverständnis herrührten. White durchdrang ihre Werke mit ihren eigenen Kämpfen gegen psychische Erkrankungen, die sie als „Das Biest“ bezeichnete, und einem anhaltenden Gefühl des Scheiterns. Sie gab offen zu, dass der kreative Prozess für sie keine Quelle der Freude war, sondern eher ein Kampf gegen Selbstzweifel und „alte Schrecken“, der sie zwang, ihre eigene Existenz als Schriftstellerin zu beweisen.

    Beyond The Glass
    As Once in May (Virago Modern Classics, Band 429)
    Strangers (Virago Modern Classics, Band 433)
    Minka und Löwenherz
    Maifrost.
    Die gläserne Wand

    • Strangers (Virago Modern Classics, Band 433)

      • 192 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden

      With uncompromising clarity, in her careful, delicate prose, antonia White looks at the pains and joys of growing up, of falling in and out of love, the borderlands between love and loneliness, sanity and madness, belief and the loss of faith. First published in 1954, STRANGERS is here extended to include her autobiographical story, 'Surprise Visit'; together they present some of Antonia White's finest writing.

      Strangers (Virago Modern Classics, Band 433)

    • As Once in May (Virago Modern Classics, Band 429)

      • 160 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden
      4,0(1)Abgeben

      Throughout her life, Antonia White struggled with a formidable writer's block: the FROST IN MAY quartet was thought to be her final achievement. Yet on her death, this extraordinary work - her autobiography up to the age of six - was discovered among her papers. The freshness and vitality with which Antonia White recorded her much younger self is breathtaking. A writer with the phenomenal power of almost total recall, she recreates her capricious and extravagant mother and the indomitable father she both feared and adored, who taught Antonia the first line of the Iliad when she was three. Here, too, are perfect vignettes: the glorious bridesmaid's hat which her mother later appropriated; love at first sight in Kensington Gardens and games of Mr and Mrs John Barker in the nursery. Much more than an evocation of childhood, AS ONCE IN MAY illuminates the woman and writer Antonia White was to become. It is an essential and enthralling companion to her fiction.

      As Once in May (Virago Modern Classics, Band 429)

    • Beyond The Glass

      • 312 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden
      4,3(15)Abgeben

      Evelyn Waugh called her one of the very best novelists of the day - a title she still deserves' Carol Shields

      Beyond The Glass

    • The Hound And The Falcon

      Contains the letters between Antonia White - a lapsed Catholic - and a former Jesuit novice. Although Antonia White returned to Church, these letters record the conflicts which preceded and followed this reconversion. They also chart the unfolding of an intimate relationship between them.

      The Hound And The Falcon

    • The Lost Traveller

      • 320 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden
      4,0(244)Abgeben

      Antonia White's sustained portrayal of Clara's budding into womanhood is a masterpiece' The Boston Globe

      The Lost Traveller

    • The Sugar House

      • 256 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      3,9(229)Abgeben

      Evelyn Waugh called her one of the very best novelists of the day - a title she still deserves' Carol Shields

      The Sugar House