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Lørdag 26. maj 2012

William Styron

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The New York Times

Artikler om William Styron fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 11. august 2011
  • Literary Lions, By Their Cubs

    IT can be a blessing and a burden to be the daughter of a literary luminary. Milton's daughters secured a kind of immortality by transcribing their blind father's lengthy masterpiece, ''Paradise Lost'' (of which the writer and critic Samuel Johnson wrote, ''None ever wished it longer than it is''). Mary Shelley, the daughter of the political...

  • Darkness Invisible

    READING MY FATHER A Memoir By Alexandra Styron 285 pp. Scribner. $25. Martin Amis, son of Kingsley, once remarked wittily that he had been name-dropping ''ever since I first said, 'Dad.' '' The Amis family, which counted Philip Larkin and Anthony Burgess among its regular guests, had nothing on the Styrons. ''My parents were invited on a day cruise...

  • BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Recalling Childhood As a Styron

    READING MY FATHER A Memoir By Alexandra Styron Illustrated. 285 pages. Scribner. $25. When Alexandra Styron, the youngest of the novelist William Styron's four children, was growing up, she writes in her new memoir, there was one inviolate rule in the house: ''Don't ask Daddy about his work.'' This was no simple edict to live by. Styron (1925-2006)...