tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post8936756088113941499..comments2024-03-29T14:45:32.326+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Amis & SonDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-3918683455432276192023-05-15T11:34:45.341+12:002023-05-15T11:34:45.341+12:00That's very interesting. I've seen that R....That's very interesting. I've seen that R. S. Thomas biography around, and your recommendation tempts me to give it a go. His own autobiographical writings are certainly terse and to the point!Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-47362499615296409492023-05-15T08:19:31.263+12:002023-05-15T08:19:31.263+12:00The trouble with contemporary biographies is they&...The trouble with contemporary biographies is they're so bloody big and so bloody detailed and so bloody uninteresting. That applies especially to Leader on Amis and Motion on Larkin. The authors set out to give you all the facts when the most important aspects of a writer's life are what happens when they're sitting down writing.<br />I don't know if you've come across them, but Byron Rogers's books on J.L. Carr (<i>The Last Englishman</i>) and R.S. Thomas (<i>The Man Who Went into the West</i>) are much better. Rogers obviously liked his subjects and admired and was entertained by them, seeing individual virtues and faults. Rawdon Crawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00009827600061999046noreply@blogger.com