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Introduction<br > Denton Welch s first ambition, conceived while at school at Repton and<br > consolidated as a student at the Goldsmith School of Art, was to be a<br > painter. He never lost this ambition - indeed, he more than adequately<br > fulfilled it, developing into an artist of extraordinary imaginative power<br > and technical skill - but in 1935. when he was twenty, the course of his<br > life was changed in such a way that he discovered another talent, one<br > which turned out to be even more potent. As he was cycling one day<br >;" . from his lodgings in Greenwicl~ to visit an aunt and uncle in Leigh, near<br > Reigate, he was run over by a car. He sustained appalling injuries from<br >~; which, thirteen years later, he was to die.<br >, His instinctive response to the accident, and the way in which he<br >. -~ managed to face up to his blighted youth and extremely uncertain future,<br >~(4. ~ was to turn inwards on himself and to live, in his imagination, almost<br >~2 entirely in the past. In doing so - in refining and recording his memories<br >~: L - he discovered his genius as a writer. Had it not been for the accident<br >~2~z~. and his subsequent confinement often for weeks at a time, to the daustro-<br >~" : phobic atmosphere of the sick-room, it is unlikely that he would ever have<br >!;~: written a word. Like the accident itself, this would have been a tragedy<br > : " for. as Edith Sitwen so precisely noted, he was a born writer. Instead of<br >~:~ remaining in the ranks of the many thousands of potentially creative<br > people who never discover their gifts, Denton Welch, through the mis-<br > fortune of a terrible disaster, was presented with the very conditions<br > under which his hitherto untapped talents could develop.<br > In 1940, when he was twenty-five, he began work on his first book.<br > Entitled Maiden Voyage, it was partly about his schooldays at Repton and<br > partly about an extended holiday spent in China when he was sixteen,<br > Like everything he was to write, it was based exclusively on actual events<br > and real people. The first edition, published in 1943, was an instant<br > success. During the five remaining years of his life, as he became pro-<br > gressively more ill he went on to write another two autobiographical<br >
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Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024