Emyr Humphreys

By: M. Wynn Thomas

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Paperback | 1 January 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Published to mark the centenary of his birth in 2019, this is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of the life and work (excluding only work for television) of the major Welsh writer Emyr Humphreys. During the course of a career spanning half a century, and dating back to the 1950s when he collaborated with the likes of Graham Greene, Patrick Heron, Saunders Lewis, Richard Burton, Sin Phillips and Peter O'Toole, Humphreys has published some two dozen works of fiction (including Outside the House of Baal, the greatest novel of anglophone Welsh literature) as well as highly distinctive poetry, seminal essays, and a visionary cultural history of Wales. In addition to offering a critical and interpretative survey of this remarkable, distinguished body of work, the present volume also sets Humphreys's output in the context of the dramatic, transformative decades in recent Welsh history during which it was produced.

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"Emyr Humphreys's achievement is, as M. Wynn Thomas argues, Faulknerian in its epic scale, chronicling the great cultural shifts that Wales has undergone over the last century - from the complex pressures of nineteenth-century Nonconformity to Wales's struggle for identity in our contemporary globalised world. While the perceptive readings of this study will give new insights to those familiar with Humphreys's work, it will be indispensable also to those coming to this major writer for the first time."--Tony Brown, Bangor University

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