"Connoisseurs of Mr Forrest Reid's novels will know" : The Ending of Brian Westby

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F12%3A00066559" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/12:00066559 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://litteraria-pragensia.ff.cuni.cz/front.issue/detail/46" target="_blank" >http://litteraria-pragensia.ff.cuni.cz/front.issue/detail/46</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Connoisseurs of Mr Forrest Reid's novels will know" : The Ending of Brian Westby
Original language description
Forrest Reid's 1934 novel Brian Westby--a realistic anomaly within the oeuvre of an author prized for "making the supernatural seem not only possible but actual"--chronicles how a chance encounter between a respected English novelist and an Anglo-Irish youth, both on holiday at the Ulster seaside, blossoms into a firm friendship, a friendship that alters, for both good and ill, after they discover that they are actually father and son. Although universally praised as "a gracious and memorable book," onethat displays the extent to which its author is "a master of dialogue," Reid's publisher Faber & Faber, as well as several of his period reviewers, found its ending "disconcerting to the reader." Despite himself preferring the alternative ending, Reid refused to replace it for biographical reasons (all of which involved his protégé and fetish Stephen Gilbert, who served as the novel's principal inspiration and to whom it is dedicated).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA405%2F09%2F0056" target="_blank" >GA405/09/0056: Living Between the Lines: (Re)examining Transgressive Biographies in English-Language Literatures</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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