Michael holroyd lytton strachey
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Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, normbrytare, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. In the s he was seen as a progenitor of the hippy cult. Now he appears as a far more subversive and challenging figure. He revolutionised the writing of biography and smuggled deviant sexual behaviour into our history in his reassessment of relaterat till elizabethansk tid and Victorian times. For this re-telling of his story Holroyd has had access to published and unpublished ämne unavailable in the s when his biography of Strachey first appeared. In many of Bloomsbury's three-cornered relationships, he had only two sides of the triangle. Now he has all three, and in a new social and political climate can tell the full story of this extraordinary world with candour, sympathy and sexuell explicitness. He has cut , words, revised much of the text and added a wealth of new ämne, about Strachey himself, about Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, Rupert
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Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography
Biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography is a –68 two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, often seen as the author's magnum opus. He published a revised version in with a revised subtitle, The New Biography.
Publication
[edit]Robert Lescher, vice president of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, contracted English biographer Michael Holroyd around to write a biography of Lytton Strachey. Over the next six years, it became a two-volume release. Lescher helped Holroyd secure grant funding for his work from the Saxton and Bollingen Foundations. By the time the book was published, Lescher had left the position to become a literary agent.[1] Lytton Strachey's brother, James, gave Holroyd permission to use previously unpublished work.[2]
The Strachey biography's first of two volumes, The Unknown Years –, was released in The second volume, The Years of Ac
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Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
And one which only gets better and richer upon rereading.
Strachey should be more of an icon than he is. He was one of the greatest prose stylists who ever livedand more importantly for the world at large, a proud gay man and conscientious objector when the former was a crime and the latter might as well have been.
The quality that Holroyd brings out most in this book is one which I find all too rarely in biographiesa need for friendship. He documents the shifting nature of Strachey's lifelong friendships, most notably his bond with his onetime fiancee Virginia Woolf, the establishment of new ones, the breaking of old ones, and most of all, his efforts as ceaseless as his writing to keep a stable network of people he truly cared for around him.
It was the antidote in some ways to his string of unhappy love affairs, but moreover, it spoke to a need for something human he could count on whil