Janet Frame Libri

Amy e Bob Withers vivono in una baracca fatiscente nella piccola città neozelandese di Weimaru e, nella grave depressione economica degli anni Trenta, riescono a malapena a sfamare i loro quattro bambini. Francie, la maggiore, a dodici anni è costretta a lasciare la scuola con la prospettiva di un misero impiego nel locale lanificio. Teresa, detta Chicks, Pulcino, è la più piccola e trotterella sporca dietro i fratelli, in perenne ricerca di una caramella o di un gesto d’affetto. Toby, l’unico maschio, soffre di epilessia e attende spaventato quei momenti in cui Dio gli butta sulla testa «un mantello scuro», e lui lotta per liberarsi «agitando in aria le braccia e le gambe». Daphne, infine, la fragile e introversa Daphne, fa suo ogni pensiero, ogni palpito del cuore, ogni gioia e dolore dei suoi fratelli. Il luogo preferito dai piccoli Withers è la discarica dei rifiuti, il posto dove si cercano i tesori, dove Toby e Daphne trovano libri di fiabe mangiucchiati dai vermi e dove Francie può liberamente raccontare i suoi sogni di adolescente che si farà strada nel mondo, andrà a ballare con i ragazzi e i loro cuori batteranno insieme.

Librarian note: Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0586085866 This is the second volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, in which she tells of how she left the close-knit family home in Oamaru for teacher training college in Dunedin. Her college years were a time of intense loneliness that culminated in an attempted suicide and commital to a mental institution. Labelled as a schizophrenic, Janet spent eight harrowing years in psychiatric hospitals until the publication of her prize-winning collection of stories won her a discharge.

After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'

This is the cautionary tale of Toby Withers and Zoe Bryce, companions at the edge of the alphabet--that strange, incommunicable region of the mind walled by silence, noisy with dreams. Toby and Zoe meet on the ship to England. Irishman Pat Keenan, a London bus driver, passionately ordinary, forms the apex of the triangle.

One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ... A masterpiece' Anita Brookner

When a man who is believed dead revives in the mortuary and returns home, he is forced to re-examine his relationships with his family and others.

Sensory perceptions are the tools with which Janet Frame investigates the failure of human communication in this extraordinary tale of a mind gone mad, a world become insane. With alternating interior monologues, the author conjures up the members of the Glace family: Vera, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter, who has stopped speaking; and Edward, the husband who abandons his family to make a genealogical study of a family in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness and invented its own tormented reality.

Our world is changing at a dizzying our physical environment, our communities and our cultures, how we communicate and the speed with which we adapt to new ways of experiencing and living in the world. Caught in the midst of decline and regeneration, what are we losing and what are we gaining? And how do we decide what's worth saving and what should be thrown away? In this issue, we travel to places on the cusp of staggering change, talk to people who have seen and done it all and rescue a few choice items from the recycling bin. From Ireland's Catholic priests - once exported around the world and now under threat even in their own country - to the hitherto obscure music saved from extinction via the vast exchange mart of the Internet, "Granta 105" captures moments of both disappearance and rebirth in all their complexity and strangeness.

"[This book] is [an] ... account of a childhood and adolescence in a New Zealand family in the 1920s and 1930s. ... Its ... language brings alive in vivid detail her home, materially poor but intellectually intense, and her first encounters with love and death. It follows [Frame's] explorations into the worlds of words and poetry. ..."--Back cover

A collection of short stories by the author of An Angel at My Table.

We follow Mavid through two marriages and watch her bury two husbands. Above all, we are privy to the attendant avoidances, interruptions, and irrelevancies that are part of her attempt to complete a novel. It's a process that is painful, joyful, rueful, and profound. Through it all, Violet-Alice-Mavis chooses to be the entertainer, to make us laugh and cry, to be the ventriloquist who dares to enter the speech of others and expose them.

Kniha představuje českému čtenáři nejznámější novozélandskou spisovatelku. Svazek obsahuje novelu Sněhuláku, sněhuláku (1963) a soubor povídek Laguna, jímž Frameová v roce 1951 literárně debutovala. Sbírku čtyřiadvaceti povídek sepsala jako pacientka psychiatrické léčebny, kam byla v době svého dospívání umístěna s chybnou diagnózou „schizofrenie“. Krátké, námětově zdánlivě jednoduché příběhy inspirované vlastními zkušenostmi jsou rámované kulisami autorčina dětství a jsou vhledem do autorčina částečně ještě adolescentního pohledu na svět, jejího ohledávání vlastního vnitřního světa, popsaného ovšem velmi obrazně, výsostně poeticky, se smyslem pro výstižný detail a metaforu. Spojujícím prvkem všech příběhů je jednak ztráta: ztráta pocitu bezpečí, ztráta domova, ztráta mysli nebo i sebe sama, a jednak znepokojivá, syrová a emocionálně silná otevřenost. Když tato prvotina získala nejprestižnější novozélandské literární ocenění The Hubert Church Prose Award, zachránilo to autorku od lékaři plánované lobotomie a byla po letech propuštěna. Pozdnější novela Sněhuláku, sněhuláku zpracovává v magicko-realistickém duchu téma věčnosti a konečnosti. Sledujeme zde „dobrodružství smrtelnosti“, jak je prožívá sněhulák postavený malou holčičkou před jejím domem.

"Dem neuen Sommer entgegen“, 1963 in London geschrieben, ist erst nach dem Tod Janet Frames veröffentlicht worden. Ihr erschien dieser Roman zu persönlich, um ihn zu Lebzeiten zu publizieren. Grace Cleave verbringt ein Wochenende außerhalb Londons. Die junge Schriftstellerin aus Neuseeland wird von einem Kritiker, der es gut mit ihr meint, zu sich in den Norden Englands eingeladen. Aber gerade die schlichte Herzlichkeit und das Verständnis ihrer Gastgeber stellen Grace auf eine schwere Probe. Sie fühlt sich wie ein Zugvogel,

Fortsetzung von "Ein Engel an meiner Tafel", die sich mit Frauen beschäftigt. 203 Seiten.

In Puamahara, een stadje in Nieuw-Zeeland, bevindt zich de oorsprong van de Legende van de Herinneringsbloem. Het is hiernaar dat een rijke Amerikaanse op zoek gaat. Zij besluit zich daartoe in het stadje P. te vestigen. Successievelijk bezoekt zij alle buren en probeert hun heden en verleden te doorgronden. Zij heeft vreemde gewaarwordingen, hoort beangstigende geluiden terwijl zij orde tracht te scheppen in haar warrige geestestoestand. Ook het bestaan van de Zwaartekracht-ster die tijd en afstand vernietigt probeert zij in te passen in haar levensbeeld. Terug in de VS blijkt zij een terminale ziekte te hebben en na haar dood volgt haar man in haar voetsporen om haar waarnemingen te herleven.