Leslie Poles Hartley

Sir Maurice Bowra, Sylvester Govett Gates and LP Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley (born December 30, 1895 in Whittlesey , Cambridgeshire , † December 13, 1972 in London ) was a British writer .

Life

Hartley was born to a lawyer; at that time this achieved success in the construction industry. His parents were methodist liberal ; and the first years of his life coincided with the rise of the family from the middle class to the class of the nouveau riche. The rise in 1900 allowed the acquisition of Fletton Castle in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire . Hartley attended the private boarding school in Harrow, where he was initially considered an outsider with his Wesleyan Methodist background. To belong, he became a member of the Anglican Church in 1911. Most of the confidants knew about his homosexuality ; and his mother (who died in 1948) urged him all her life to return to the family seat. From 1922 until the beginning of the Second World War he spent his time in Venice; Simonetta Perkins , his first lengthy prose piece and published in 1925, is set in the city. The many trips and social obligations often prevented him from writing. When he began the novel The Go-Between in Venice in May 1952 , “Hartley's world of experience was that of a person who feels persistently uncomfortable in his self-chosen environment, who had to acquire a set of rules in order to belong at all. Nothing was taken for granted for him "

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Colm Tóibín wrote: “The longing for an idealized England, which he believed he had experienced in his childhood and early adolescence, never left him, and his novels and stories stage the drama that arises from his own ambiguous position and loving desire after a period of childhood arose: a world that is always expecting its destruction, insecurity incarnate. "

His best known work is The Go-Between . The novel was published for the first time in 1956 under the title Der Zoll des Glücks, translated by Maria Wolff into German. This translation was revised and supplemented half a century later by Adrian Stokar . This new version was published in 2008, with the original English title remaining untranslated.

Works

• Night Fears , 1924 (short stories)
• Simonetta Perkins , 1925
• The Killing Bottle , 1932 (short stories)
• The Shrimp and the Anemone , 1944 ( Eustace and Hilda Trilogy I ; German Das Goldregenhaus , Hamburg 1948)
• The West Window , 1945
• The Sixth Heaven , 1946 ( Eustace and Hilda Trilogy II ; German The Sixth Heaven , Hamburg 1948)
• Eustace and Hilda , 1947 ( Eustace and Hilda Trilogy III ; German Eustace and Hilda , Hamburg 1949)
• The Traveling Grave and Other Stories , 1948 (short stories)
• The Boat , 1949 (German: Das Boot , Tübingen 1961)
• My Fellow Devils , 1951
• The Go-Between , 1953 (German: The Customs of Luck , Munich 1956; A Summer in Brandham Hall , Zurich 1990 and The Go-Between , Zurich 2008)
• The White Wand and Other Stories , 1954 (short stories)
• A Perfect Woman , 1955
• The Hireling , 1957 (German message for Lady Franklin , Tübingen 1958)
• Facial Justice , 1960
• The Bachelors , 1960
• Two for the River , 1961 (short stories)
• The Brickfield , 1964
• The Betrayal , 1966
• The Novelist's Responsibility , 1967
• Poor Clare , 1968
• The Collected Short Stories of LP Hartley , 1968
• The Love-Adept: A Variation on a Theme , 1969
• My Sisters' Keeper , 1970
• Mrs. Carteret Receives , 1971 (short stories)
• The Harness Room , 1971
• The Collections: A Novel , 1972
• The Will and the Way , 1973
• The Complete Short Stories of LP Hartley , 1973
• The Collected Macabre Stories , 2001

Film adaptations

• 1971: The mediator
• 1973: Message for Lady Franklin ( The hireling )

Web links

• Literature by and about Leslie Poles Hartley in the catalog of the German National Library
• L. P. Hartley in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} C. Toibin: Foreword to The Go-Between Azusgabe Zurich 2008.