エズラ・パウンド伝 第３巻：1939-1972年 Ezra Pound: Poet : Volume III: the Tragic Years 1939-1972

Moody, A. David

Oxford University Press（2015/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 680 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198704362
• DDC分類 811.52

Full Description

This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. The first volumes of Moody's biography have been acclaimed as 'masterly' (Daily Telegraph), 'exceptional' (Literary Review), and 'invaluable' (New York Times Book Review). In this concluding volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we encounter the grave moral and intellectual error of Pound holding the Jewish race responsible for the war; and his consequent downfall, being charged with treason, condemned as an anti-Semite, and shut up for twelve years in an institution for the insane. Further, we see Pound stripped for life, by his own counsel and wife, of his civil and human rights.

Pound endured what was inflicted upon him, justly and unjustly, without complaint; and continued his lifetime's effort to promote, in and through his Cantos and his translations, a consciousness of a possible humane and just social order. The contradictions run deep and compel, as tragedy does, a steady and unprejudiced contemplation and an answering depth of comprehension.

Contents

PART ONE: 1939 - 1945; PART TWO: 1945; PART THREE; PART FOUR: ST ELIZABETHS 1946 - 1958; PART FIVE: 1958 - 1972; APPENDIX