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D. M. Thomas (1935–2023)

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Writer and translator D. M. Thomas was born in Cornwall, England on January 27, 1935. He graduated with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford and became a teacher. In 1979, he became a full-time author and his best-known work is The White Hotel. His works also include memoirs, visa mer poetry and translations of Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Verk av D. M. Thomas

Vita hotellet (1981) 1,660 exemplar
Ararat (1983) 210 exemplar
The Flute-Player (1979) 127 exemplar
Swallow (1984) 109 exemplar
Pictures at an Exhibition (1993) 103 exemplar
Birthstone (1980) 90 exemplar
Sphinx (1986) 72 exemplar
Eating Pavlova (1994) 71 exemplar
Flying in to Love (1992) 61 exemplar
Lying Together (1990) 46 exemplar
Summit (1987) 39 exemplar
Memories and Hallucinations (1935) 39 exemplar
Thomas: Selected Poems (1983) 24 exemplar
Hunters in the Snow (2014) 20 exemplar
Lady With a Laptop: A Novel (1996) 19 exemplar
Not Saying Everything (2006) 9 exemplar
Logan stone (1971) 5 exemplar
Top 4 exemplar
Puberty Tree (1992) 4 exemplar
Bleak Hotel (2008) 4 exemplar
Two Voices (1968) 4 exemplar
Poetry in Crosslight (1975) 2 exemplar
Vita Hotellet 2 exemplar
The Last Waltz: Poems (2021) 2 exemplar
HOTELI I BARDHE 1 exemplar
Horizons (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Lilith-prints (1974) 1 exemplar
Love and Other Deaths (1975) 1 exemplar
Fløjtespilleren (1984) 1 exemplar
Freud Hayati Ve Dusunceleri (2012) 1 exemplar
Japanese Tattoo 1 exemplar
Dear Shadows (2004) 1 exemplar
Beli hotel 1 exemplar

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Selected Poems (1985) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor565 exemplar
Ruslan and Lyudmila (1974) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor205 exemplar
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor166 exemplar
New Worlds: An Anthology (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 108 exemplar
The Bronze Horseman: Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin (1982) — Översättare — 89 exemplar
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 84 exemplar
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4 (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 65 exemplar
The New SF (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 5 (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 56 exemplar
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 56 exemplar
New Worlds 6 (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
New Worlds 5 (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
Holding your eight hands; an anthology of science fiction verse (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
One Hundred Years a Diocese (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar

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Sigmund Freud attempts to treat a woman suffering from hallucinations that set explicit sexual acts in the foreground while mass death events are occurring in the background (drowning, fire, falling, buried alive). Getting into this novel is a bit of an uphill climb, since it's front-loaded with the hallucinations part but, on the far side of that, Sigmund goes to work as he tries to rationalize what's been shared, looking for the symbols he can tie into his patient's life and history.

There's a bit of a trick going on here, first hinted at and then increasingly evident (if you know your history, or you've just been reading the LT tags). The rising tension is mostly due to predicting what's coming rather than the plotting, although the hallucination element adds some ominousness. Its climax includes the most gut-wrenching description of this particular scene I've ever read, although I understand Thomas has Anatoly Kuznetsov to thank for its power. The final section ends on a mercifully happier note, the only one available.
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Cecrow | 22 andra recensioner | Jan 17, 2024 |
Terrific, unusual book, in three minds with at least three stories. The writing is delightful-fabulous.
 
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RickGeissal | 1 annan recension | Aug 16, 2023 |
This is a tough book. Partly, it is the 'post-modern' style of the narrative, wherein actual events and non-fictional material is interlaced within the writing. Partly, it is the intense sexual fantasy in the (supposed) sessions between the main character and Freud that might put people off, and the knowledge we have of the doom awaiting those who lived between the wars of the 20th century. Or it might have been the iterative views of what is portrayed, each one changing the one before like a psychological Rashamon. How can we trust the narrator? How can we trust the portrayal of Freud, just reaching his ideas about the connection between love and the death wish?

And all along there is love, in various forms, and death, natural and otherwise. Ultimately, we follow the main character all the way from trauma and pain and love to barbarous death, and something more.

An excellent novel for those open to its method and frankness.
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ffortsa | 22 andra recensioner | May 7, 2023 |
Ha!
This book. This book... I gave this to a girl who became my wife for 12 years...
At the time I had not read the book, nor knew what the book was about at all.
I did not find out that I won the girl due to the sexual fantasy until half a dozen years later. . .
 
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SamQTrust | 22 andra recensioner | Nov 22, 2021 |

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Verk
45
Även av
17
Medlemmar
2,976
Popularitet
#8,570
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
38
ISBN
153
Språk
15
Favoritmärkt
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