Joyce Cary

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Memorial plaque for Joyce Cary in Derry

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (born December 7, 1888 in Londonderry , Northern Ireland ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ), † March 29, 1957 in Oxford , England ) was a British- Irish writer .

Life

Cary went to Clifton to school and attended Oxford , the College . He then began studying art history at Edinburgh University. He continued his studies in Paris for three years , but then realized that he would not get very far as a painter. In 1912 he volunteered for the military and worked from 1913 to 1920 as an official in the political service in Nigeria . For health reasons he returned to England in 1920 and worked as a freelance writer. In the course of his life, Joyce Cary wrote around 25 novels as well as short stories and essays. These are in a moderately modernist narrative style with strong milieu coloring. Influenced by his time in Africa , Cary wrote several African novels, according to Mister Johnson , in which he describes the clash of a single African with "civilized" society. Great Britain society forms the background in later works. In 1941 he received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for A House of Children . Towards the end of his life he suffered from a motor disorder, so that he could only write with aids and ultimately only dictate. His last novel The Captive and the Free (published 1959) remained unfinished.

Cary was married and had four sons, including the composer Tristram Cary .

His novels were also made into films. In 1958 the core of the matter was released, in 1990 the film Mister Johnson .

Works (selection)

  • Aissa Saved (1932, German: Aissa saved )
  • An American Visitor (1933)
  • The African Witch (1936, German 1938: A black prince )
  • Castle Corner (1938)
  • Mister Johnson (1939)
  • Charley Is My Darling (1940)
  • A House of Children (1941, German 1971: then in Dunamara )
  • Herself Surprised (1941, German: Mrs. Monday's transformation )
  • The Case for African Freedom (1941)
  • To Be a Pilgrim (1942, German: In the shadow of life )
  • The Horse's Mouth (1944, German: The core of the matter , filmed from a script by Alec Guinness )
  • Marching Soldier (1945)
  • The Moonlight (1946)
  • A Fearful Joy (1949, German: Banges Glück )
  • Prisoner of Grace (1952, German: On mercy and disgrace )
  • Except the Lord (1953, German: Chester Nimmo )
  • Not Honor More (1955, German: play without honor )
  • Art and Reality (1958)
  • The Captive and the Free (1959)
  • Spring Song and Other Stories (1960)
  • Memoir of the Bobotes (1964)
  • Selected Essays (1976), edited by Alan Bishop

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Göran Nieragden: "Mister Johnson" . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): " Kindlers Literatur Lexikon " . 3rd, completely revised edition. tape 3 . Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , pp. 567 f .
  2. ↑ a b Joyce Cary in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ List of the award winners ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ed.ac.uk
  4. ^ A valedictory of a great writer . In: Life magazine . March 25, 1957, ISSN  0024-3019 , p. 105-108 ( online in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ The core of the matter. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Cary, Joyce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Derry , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1957
Place of death Oxford , England, UK