Chatterton
(Sprache: Englisch)
When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.
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When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.
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Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel. In today's London, a young poet and an elderly novelist engage the mystery of Chatterton by trying to decode the clues found in an old manuscript, only to discover that their investigation discloses other riddles for which there are no solutions. Chatterton is at once a hilariously witty comedy; a thoughtful and dramatic exploration of the deepest issues of authenticity in both life and art; and a subtle and touching story of failed lives, parental love, doomed marriages, and erotic passions.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd wurde 1949 in London geboren. Er studierte Literaturwissenschaft in Yale und Cambridge und arbeitete viele Jahre für den »Spectator« und die »Times«. Ackroyd ist einer der namhaftesten britischen Gegenwartsautoren («Neue Zürcher Zeitung«). Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Romane und Biographien und erhielt den Somerset Maugham Award, den Guardian Fiction Prize und den Whitbread Award.
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- Autor: Peter Ackroyd
- 2010, 5th ed., 234 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Grove Press
- ISBN-10: 0802134807
- ISBN-13: 9780802134806
Sprache:
Englisch
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