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It’s November 1953 and Dylan Thomas, Britain’s finest poet, is dying in a hospital bed in New York. What brought him to this end is not clear. But he is a man tormented by fear – fear of failing as a writer, fear of a marriage doomed to end in disaster, even fear of death itself – all of which have led him to find comfort in alcohol, outrageous behaviour and the arms of other women. Now, as Dylan lies waiting for the end, he thinks back over his life, from his childhood in Swansea to his days as a wild young poet in London, from his tempestuous marriage to Caitlin MacNamara to his final week. Read more…
Abstract: It’s November 1953 and Dylan Thomas, Britain’s finest poet, is dying in a hospital bed in New York. What brought him to this end is not clear. But he is a man tormented by fear – fear of failing as a writer, fear of a marriage doomed to end in disaster, even fear of death itself – all of which have led him to find comfort in alcohol, outrageous behaviour and the arms of other women. Now, as Dylan lies waiting for the end, he thinks back over his life, from his childhood in Swansea to his days as a wild young poet in London, from his tempestuous marriage to Caitlin MacNamara to his final week
نوامبر 1953 است و دیلن توماس، بهترین شاعر بریتانیایی، روی تخت بیمارستانی در نیویورک در حال مرگ است. چه چیزی او را به این پایان رسانده است، مشخص نیست. اما او مردی است که از ترس عذاب میکشد – ترس از شکست در مقام نویسنده، ترس از ازدواجی که محکوم به فاجعه است، حتی ترس از خود مرگ – همه اینها او را به آرامش در مشروبات الکلی، رفتارهای ظالمانه و آغوش کشیده است. زنان دیگر. اکنون، در حالی که دیلن منتظر پایان است، او به زندگی خود فکر می کند، از دوران کودکی اش در سوانسی تا روزهایی که به عنوان یک شاعر جوان وحشی در لندن، از ازدواج طوفانی او با کیتلین مک نامارا تا هفته آخرش. ادامه مطلب…
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