Chronology Entry
Year
1962
Text
Wang Zuoliang. [Review of the 6 Autobiographies by Sean O'Casey (1939-1956)]. In : Shi jie wen xue ; no 3 (1962).
I Knock at the door
Pictures in the hallway
Drums under the window
Inishfallen fare thee well
Rose and crown
Sunset and evening star
I had read the volumes with deep interest. O'Casey's own life was full of incident, and the people he had associated with – Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the men of Easter, 1916 – were in their different ways heroic. The work also struck me as a new type of writing, fiction-like in its narrative technique, but freer in movement, allowing easy transition from recollection to reflection and back again, in a prose that is remarkable for its mixture of parody, invective, lyricism and a kind of stream-of-consciousness reverie quite reminiscent of Joyce.
I Knock at the door
Pictures in the hallway
Drums under the window
Inishfallen fare thee well
Rose and crown
Sunset and evening star
I had read the volumes with deep interest. O'Casey's own life was full of incident, and the people he had associated with – Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the men of Easter, 1916 – were in their different ways heroic. The work also struck me as a new type of writing, fiction-like in its narrative technique, but freer in movement, allowing easy transition from recollection to reflection and back again, in a prose that is remarkable for its mixture of parody, invective, lyricism and a kind of stream-of-consciousness reverie quite reminiscent of Joyce.
Mentioned People (2)
O'Casey, Sean
(Dublin, Irland 1880-1964 Torquay) : Dramatiker, Schriftsteller, Freiheitskämpfer, Sozialist
Wang, Zuoliang
(Shangyu, Zhejiang 1916-1995) : Professor Studies in Comparative Literature and Translation, Beijing Foreign Language Institute
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Ireland
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1985 | Wang, Zuoliang. Sean O'Casey in China. In : Wang, Zuoliang. Degrees of affinity : studies in comparative literature. (Beijing : Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1985). | Publication / OCa1 |
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