Catastrophe Practice
1st Edition
Published on 2. April 2013
339 pages
978-1-4482-1119-7 (ISBN)
Description
Catastrophe Practice, in the form of three plays with prefaces and a novella, follows six characters trying to find their way through some catastrophe that is less in the world outside than in their minds. Drawing upon catastrophe theory to examine the discontinuities in human personality and our tendency to progress suddenly rather than smoothly, the six characters struggle to disrupt traditional ways of being. These characters feel that conventional ways of interpreting the world have become destructive -conventional language, conventional feelings, conventional situations - and try to find a way to realise genuine experience.
Reviews / Votes
Mosley is that rare bird: an English writer whose imagination is genuinely inspired by intellectual conundrums. * Guardian * Nicholas Mosley is a throwback, a modernist mastodon whose project for fiction surpasses in grandiosity that of any American writer. * Washington Post *More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-1119-7 (9781448211197)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Nicholas Mosley was born in London and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in Italy during the Second World War, winning the Military Cross for bravery. He succeeded as 3rd Baron Ravensdale in 1966 and, in 1980 he also succeeded to the Baronetcy.
He is the author of twelve novels. Hopeful Monsters won The Whitbread Book of The Year Award in 1990. Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley.
He is the author of twelve novels. Hopeful Monsters won The Whitbread Book of The Year Award in 1990. Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Skylite
- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- Landfall
- Act I
- Act II
- Cell
- Cypher
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- A Note on the Author
- Also by the Author
- Imprint
