Adrian Mitchell (1) (1932–2008)
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Adrian Mitchell is a poet, playwright and children's writer
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Verk av Adrian Mitchell
Plays with Songs: "Tyger Two", "Satie-Day/Night", "Man Friday", "In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency" (Modern… (1996) 5 exemplar
Il barone alla riscossa: le avventure del Barone di Munchausen come egli le racconto a Adrian Mitchell (1985) 1 exemplar
Münchhausens äventyr på Ostön : fler av baronens äventyr som han berättat dem för Adrian Mitchell (1986) 1 exemplar
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Jean Paul Marat förföljd och mördad så som det framställs av patienterna på hospitalet Charenton under ledning av… (1964) — Verse adaption, vissa utgåvor — 1,246 exemplar
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (Poetry Collection) (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1932-10-24
- Avled
- 2008-12-20
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Födelseort
- London, England, UK
- Dödsort
- London, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- heart failure, following a bout of pneumonia
- Bostadsorter
- London, England, UK
- Utbildning
- University of Oxford (Christ Church)
Dauntsey's School
Greenways School, Wiltshire, England, UK
Monkton Combe School, Bath, England, UK - Yrken
- journalist
poet
playwright
novelist
songwriter - Kort biografi
"Adrian had been writing poetry for over 50 years until his recent death. He came to fame with his anti-war poem "To whom it may concern" which he read at a peace rally in 1964. Even greater acclaim came in July 1965 when he read it at the Poetry Festival held at the Albert Hall. This was one, if not the highlight of the evening, when several better known foreign [mainly USA] poets' performances were a little the worse for "dubious substances" and since the Vietnam war was by then a greater worry, his poem was more frequently called by its refrain "Tell me lies about Vietnam." May the Muses tend a sadly deceased peace-loving poet I sometime met." (By member Landric)
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- Medlemmar
- 856
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- #29,896
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- 4.0
- Recensioner
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It is set in an authoritarian UK at least ten years in the future of its 1970 publication date. Our narrator is a none too bright thug, a bodyguard (or BG) part of the always necessary horde of myrmidons required to come between the oppressing politicians of an authoritarian state and the people. He is relating his tale from a hospital bed where he is recovering from serious wounds he has received in the line of duty. He is an unreliable narrator. Some of that unreliability may be the effects of the heavy drugs he's taken as part of his recuperation, as there are at times fantastical elements to his story. But he also has an inflated opinion of himself. He often tells us he wants to be the best BG of all, and in his mind he clearly is just that, whereas in reality, while he's no Schweik, he isn't all that good at his job. (There is a need for large numbers of Bodyguards as there is a pretty fearsome insurgency, which our 'hero' refers to as The Rot, continually committing acts of violence against the leaders and apparatus of the regime.) The book, however, is a product of its time and there are some oddly hippy facets to our otherwise oppressed society. While not ubiquitous, public nudity is not uncommon in certain contexts, and some drugs such as marijuana are legal.
It is a short but quite dense book and is very well written. The author is primarily a poet, and while the prose is not purple it is refreshingly free of cliche. The author skilfully gets by without the use of infodumps, and as a reader we only gradually acquire a complete picture of the surrounding society.
If you're a fan of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Fahrenheit 451, etc, then The Bodyguards is well worth adding to that list.… (mer)