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作者:John Garth 著出版社:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版时间:2005年06月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:398
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2005年06月01日
- 开 本:32开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:平装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780618574810
"Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been
written." -- A.N. Wilson
"A highly intelligent book ... Garth displays impressive skills
both as researcher and writer." -- Max Hastings
"It is a strange story that Garth tells, but he tells it clearly
and compellingly." -- Tom Shippey
"Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation." --
Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News
"Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights."
- Library Journal
"A labor of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman's
nose for a good story with a scholar's scrupulous attention to
detail... Brilliantly argued." -- Daily Mail
"Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply
friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and
disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien's
lush saga." - Detroit Free Press
“To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience
than in 1939 . . . by 1918 all but one of my close friends were
dead.”
So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the
Rings as a reaction to the Second World War. Tolkien and the Great
War tells for the first time the full story of how he embarked on
the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him
was plunged into catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and
heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of
the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his
mythology into life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant
young men were killed, Tolkien pursued the dream they had all
shared by launching his epic of good and evil.
This is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since
1977, meticulously researched and distilled from his personal
wartime papers and a multitude of other sources.
John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the
First World War is the key to Middle-earth's enduring power.
Tolkien used his mythic imagination not to escape from reality but
to reflect and transform the cataclysm of his generation. While his
contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment
alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that
resonates to this day.
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