Richard Ellmann Livres

Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's his deep mastery of the Irish milieu--demonstrated not only in this volume but in his books on Yeats and Wilde. He's also an admirable stylist himself--graceful, witty, and happily unintimidated by his brilliant subjects. But in addition, Ellmann seems to have an uncanny grasp on Joyce's personality: his reverence for the Irishman's literary accomplishment is always balanced by a kind of bemused affection for his faults. Whether Joyce is putting the finishing touches on Ulysses, falling down drunk in the streets of Trieste, or talking dirty to his future wife via the postal service, Ellmann's account always shows us a genius and a human being--a daunting enough task for a fiction writer, let alone the poor, fact-fettered biographer. Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls De Profundis "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.

Ellmann präsentiert ein detailliertes Porträt von James Joyce und seiner Zeit, indem er den Leser durch die 'Joyce-Städte' Dublin, Triest, Paris und Zürich führt. Dabei beleuchtet er auch literarische Kreise und Persönlichkeiten wie Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Hemingway und Proust sowie Joyces komplexe Innenwelt.

Richard Ellmann (1918-1987), der sich zeitlebens mit den vier die Literatur des Jahrhunderts prägenden Autoren beschäftigt hat, deckt anhand von Dokumenten und aufgrund von Gesprächen, die er mit Angehörigen und Bezugspersonen der Autoren führte, furchtlos wie behutsam bisher weitgehend ungelüftete Geheimnisse der Dichterpsyche im Spannungsfeld sexueller, religiöser und existentieller Nöte auf. Ellmann versucht zu deuten, indem er eindringlich beschreibt, zitiert und das Werk der Dichter nie aus den Augen verliert.

"The Dead" ist die abschließende Erzählung der 1914 veröffentlichten Sammlung "Dubliners". Sie erzählt von Gabriel, der entdeckt, dass seine Frau eine Erinnerung an einen verstorbenen Jungen bewahrt, was bei ihm Einsamkeit und Entfremdung auslöst. James Joyce schrieb diese Geschichte zwischen 1906 und 1907.