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Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (Londres 17 de Janeiro de 1886 - Roma 21 de Maio de 1926) foi um novelista britânico. [1] As suas obras foram sub-valorizadas pela crítica, mas alguns grandes nomes da literatura inglesa, como Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell e Sir Osbert Sitwell, saíram em sua defesa. [2]
17 de mai. de 2024 · Ronald Firbank (born January 17, 1886, London, England—died May 21, 1926, Rome, Italy) was an English novelist who was a literary innovator of some importance. Greatly indebted to the literature of the 1890s, his is a peculiarly fantastic and perverse, idiosyncratic humour.
British novelist Ronald Firbank was born in London, the son of society lady Harriet Jane Garrett and MP Sir Thomas Firbank. He went to Uppingham School, and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge, without completing a degree.
14 de mar. de 2018 · In a notably diffident introduction to the 1961 Complete Ronald Firbank, Powell remarked upon Firbank’s odd patrimony: Like everything else about him, the family background is unusual.
Ronald Firbank. An exotic bloom in the mould of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) was an author who achieved little recognition in his short life but has since been reassessed as a leader of the Aesthetic Movement.
14 de mar. de 2018 · An attuned ear also might hear occasional echoes of Firbank’s distinctive prose style in the playful postmodern poetry of John Ashbery, a lifelong fan.
