Borstal Boy Brendan Behan

Name: Borstal Boy par Brendan Behan
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Résumé

Borstal Boy Résumé

Borstal Boy Brendan Behan

'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years old. The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Conditions were primitive, and violence simmered just below the surface. Yet Brendan Behan found something more positive than hate in Borstal: friendship, solidarity and healing flashes of kindness. Extraordinarily vivid, fluent, and moving, this is a superb and unforgettable piece of writing. Borstal Boy was adapted into a film in 2000.

Borstal Boy Avis

"He has more than charm, he has instinctive kindness and charity, a verbal grace, an unforced assertion of a strong personality" * Sunday Times *
"The best thing in Irish writing since Sean O'Casey" * The Spectator *

À propos de Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan was born in Dublin in 1923. A member of the IRA, he was sentenced to three years in Borstal in 1939 and a further fourteen years in 1942. He became a dominant literary figure almost overnight with the 1956 production of his play The Quare Fellow, based on his prison experiences. This recognition was reinforced by the success of Borstal Boy and his second play, The Hostage. Brendan Behan described his recreations as 'drinking, talking, and swimming' but no factual description could do justice to his flamboyant, larger-than-life character. Generally regarded as irreverent and unpredictable if not actually dangerous, there was nonetheless no publicity which ever obscured his marked talents or his great understanding of human nature. A man whose contemporaries include Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin, Behan was a key part of Ireland's great modern literary tradition. Brendan Behan died in 1964.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR001228431

ISBN 13

9780099706502

ISBN 10

0099706504

Titre

Borstal Boy Brendan Behan

Auteur

Brendan Behan

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Cornerstone

Année de publication

1990-04-05

Nombre de pages

384

Prix

N/A

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