Charles Brasch Journals 1938-1945: Volume 1

Charles Brasch Journals 1938-1945: Volume 1
Charles Brasch
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Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 600pg
31 Oct 2013 NZ
9781877372841
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Transcribed by Margaret Scott, with a Dramatis Personae and annotations by Andrew Parsloe, these are the journals of an intelligent young man, just thirty when they begin, living through the Second World War in Britain. In journal entries that quickly become a daily habit/necessity, he struggles with relationships, what part he can play in the war effort, what he should do with his life, whether he should return to New Zealand' and creates and moving and always interesting document. Hundreds of people appear in these pages - especially emerging writers, both British and Kiwi - usually as visitors to London, and he finds an important friends in Colin Roberts. Rachel Barrowman's 'Finding "a Home for the Spirit'" discusses the journals as an exploration of 'identity and self'during these restless was years'. When Brasch resolved to return to New Zealand at the end of 1945, it was 'part of a cultural mission: to make his contribution to the development in New Zealand of a mature' literary and arts culture'.
Charles Brasch (1909-1973) was a major figure in New Zealand's cultural life of the mid twentieth century - a poet, patron and founding editor of Landfall. His books included several volumes of verse, a collection of essays (The Universal Dance, 1981), a memoir (Indirections, 1980), and an edited volume of work from Landfall (Landfall Country, 1962). Substantial contributions have been made to this work by Margaret Scott, Rachel Barrowman, Andrew Parsloe, Marilyn Aitcheson, Alan Roddick, Wendy Harrex and Fiona Moffat.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781877372841
Published: 31 Oct 2013
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Otago University Press
Publisher: Otago University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 600
Dewey: 828.91403

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