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Numéro de l'objet:185676489257Daniel Swift The Bughouse (Poche).
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Titre: The Bughouse Condition: Neuf Sous titres: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound Auteur: Daniel Swift Format: Poche ISBN-10: 0099593351 EAN: 9780099593355 ISBN: 9780099593355 Publisher: Vintage Genre: Biography Sujet: Law & Politics, Literary Criticism Date de publication: 2018-02-08 Description:
‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de Waal
In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade.
At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer – ‘The most important living poet in the English language’ according to T. S. Eliot – but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum.
Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound – the artistic flair, the profound human flaws – whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.