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An hour with Timothy Findley
No full textCanadian writer, Timothy Findley, talks about his work and reads extracts from his plays and novels.Presented at the Writers and Readers Week held during the 1st New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, 13 March 1986.Recorded by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive
English 2150 : Modern Canadian fiction. Lecture 22. Timothy Findley
No full textDr. T. Goldie interviews Timothy Findley as a prelude to an examination of his novel The Wars.The item may be incomplete. Lacks closing credits. Minor distortion throughout
Timothy Findley, His Biographers, and The Piano Man’s Daughter
No full textIn this paper, Sherrill Grace, Findley’s biographer, will examine her biographical practices in the context of Findley’s own memoir, Inside Memory, and his interest in creating fictional auto/biographers and auto/biography in several of his major novels (notably The Wars, Famous Last Words, The Telling of Lies, and The Piano Man’s Daughter). His fictional auto/biographers often use the same categories of document that Findley himself used—journals, diaries, archives—and this reality produces some fascinating challenges for a Findley biographer, not least the difficulty of separating fact from fiction, or, as Mauberley says in Famous Last Words, truth from lies. Like many writers, Findley kept journals all his life, and they are a key source of information for his biographer; however, his way of recording information and his creation of fictional journals means that a biographer (like the readers of his fictional auto/biographers) must tread carefully. While not a theoretical study of auto/biography, in this paper Grace will offer insights into the traps that lie in waiting for a biographer, especially when dealing with a biographee who is as self-conscious an auto/biographer as Findley
Timothy Findley
No full text"Along with Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley (b. 1930) is one of Canada's most popular and important writers. A consummate stylist and entertainer, he seems driven to return to a set of private obsessions that electrically connect with the most decisive events of the twentieth century. While some wish to claim him as an untiring advocate of free speech or as Canada's most ardent antiwar writer, others argue that his work is best defined by its reverence for animals and the sanctity of the natural world." "In this comprehensive study of Findley's eight novels, novella, three story collections, three plays, and memoir, Diana Brydon argues that Findley's fiction engages with the legacy of modernism as both a social and artistic movement that reached an impasse in the holocaust, which for Findley encompasses the Nazi concentration camps and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For Findley, the holocaust becomes an organizing image for horror and a call to remembrance, for the demarcating lines of memory and forgetting. Such horrific events recall and resituate the repressed histories of violence on which the new world of the Americas was built by European immigrants often fleeing violence yet trailing it in their wake." "Brydon's clearly written yet sophisticated study draws on a range of approaches, from the historical to the postcolonial, in assessing Timothy Findley's accomplishment."--BOOK JACKET
Timothy Findley\u27s war novels
No full textTimothy Findley has shown a deep concern for the most outstanding historical events of the 20th century, seen from the point of view of a Canadian citizen with a remarkable European vocation. Two of his best known novels are The Wars and Famous Last Words. The first one depicts the spiritual nightmare undergone by a Canadian lieutenant during World War I. The technique used for Famous Last Words is completely different and the view of the world at war refers to the period 1940-1945. This other novel depicts the activities of historical characters, besides fictitious ones. We have never felt the presence of evil so disturbing as with this extravagant tale that sounds like "the truth," because the memory of the events is still so vivid that it will outlive several generations of human beings
The Art of Biography : Finding Timothy Findley
No full textDr. Grace is a prolific scholar specializing in the study of Canadian literature and culture. She is the author of Canada and the Idea of North (2001, 2007), Making Theatre: The Life of Sharon Pollock (2008), On the Art of Being Canadian (2009), the co-edited volume Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities (2012), Landscapes of Memory: Representations of the Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts (2014), and Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley (2020). Dr. Grace is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and awardee of a Royal Society of Canada’s Lorne Pierce Medal for national career achievement, winner of a Canada Council Killam Prize in Humanities, and recipient of a Canadian Association of Theatre Research Lifetime Achievement award, as well as UBC’s Jacob Biely Faculty Research prize and Killam Prize for Graduate Teaching.Arts, Faculty ofEnglish, Department ofUnreviewedFacult
The Perfection of Gesture: Timothy Findley and Canadian Theatre
No full textTimothy Findley, one of Canada's best-known writers of fiction, has also made notable contributions to Canadian theatre. His early acting career, his work as a playwright and as a scriptwriter for CBC radio and television have resulted in his participation in several 'firsts' in Canadian theatre history. Findley acted in the inaugural season at the Stratford Festival, was the National Arts Centre's first playwright-in-residence, and wrote the script for CBC Television's first feature-length colour film. As well, Findley's theatre background has had a profound effect on the development of his writing career and on his fictional style. Some of his recent work indicates a renewed interest in writing for the stage.
Timothy Findley, l'un des écrivains les plus connus du Canada, a également apporté des contributions très remarquées au théâtre canadien. Sa carrière de jeune acteur ainsi que son oeuvre de dramaturge et de scénariste pour la télévision et la radio démontrent son importance comme innovateur dans l'histoire du théâtre canadien. Acteur à Stratford lors de la saison inaugurale du Festival, il fut aussi le premier dramaturge en résidence au Centre National des Arts et scénariste pour le premier long métrage à la télévision de la CBC. Par ailleurs, sa formation d'homme de théâtre a eu une influence profonde sur le développement de son style et sur sa carrière d'écrivain. Certains de ses ouvrages récents suggèrent que l'écriture théâtrale l'attire à nouveau
The trials of Ezra Pound
No full textThe Trials of Ezra Pound is a stark portrayal of Ezra Pound at the end of his public life. Based upon the preliminary hearings of the trials held in Washinton, D.C. in late 1945 and early 1946, Timothy Findley reveals what the original transcripts do not - Pound's emotionally charged interpretation of the events and his self-destruction. By letting Pound pace impatiently between time and place, Findley conducts a rare dramatic dance in The Trials of Ezra Pound - he takes the trial beyond one courtroom and into the realm of all humanity and it is here, in the light of Ezra Pound's harsh contradictions, that Findley asks the reader not to judge, but how to judge
Qu'est-ce que tu fais de moi? : traduction de Can you see me yet? de Timothy Findley
No full textLe Canada anglais compte plusieurs excellents romanciers et dramaturges dont un petit nombre seulement jouissent d'une renommée internationale. Parmi ces derniers, il faut sûrement ranger Timothy Findley, prolifique auteur de sept romans, de trois pièces de théâtre, de deux recueils de nouvelles et d'une autobiographie qui a suscité beaucoup d'intérêt lorsqu'elle a paru récemment (1991). Nous nous proposons ici de faire quelques brèves remarques concernant la pièce de théâtre, que nous avons traduite, Can You See Me Yet?, portée à la scène en 1976. Ceux qui ne connaitraient pas Findley à travers ses oeuvres, ont peut-être pu découvrir ce personnage tout à fait fascinant lors de la télédiffusion par le CBC du documentaire : Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer, présenté en première le 19 décembre 1991, par Adrienne Clarkson. Clarkson fait l'éloge de Findley, qu'elle décrit comme étant « one of Canada's most honoured writers... », et qu'elle nous montre explorant le processus de création littéraire tel que Findley lui-même l'a expérimenté. Le documentaire en question a le mérite de nous faire saisir l'univers à la fois physique et intellectuel de Findley. On le retrouve sur sa ferme de Cannington, en Ontario, ferme qu'il a baptisé «Stone Orchard en 1964, pour nousrappeler la dette qu'il doit à son dramaturge favori, Anton Chekhov, auteur de l'immortel Cherry Orchard. […
Qu'est-ce que tu fais de moi? : traduction de Can you see me yet? de Timothy Findley
No full textLe Canada anglais compte plusieurs excellents romanciers et dramaturges dont un petit nombre seulement jouissent d'une renommée internationale. Parmi ces derniers, il faut sûrement ranger Timothy Findley, prolifique auteur de sept romans, de trois pièces de théâtre, de deux recueils de nouvelles et d'une autobiographie qui a suscité beaucoup d'intérêt lorsqu'elle a paru récemment (1991). Nous nous proposons ici de faire quelques brèves remarques concernant la pièce de théâtre, que nous avons traduite, Can You See Me Yet?, portée à la scène en 1976. Ceux qui ne connaitraient pas Findley à travers ses oeuvres, ont peut-être pu découvrir ce personnage tout à fait fascinant lors de la télédiffusion par le CBC du documentaire : Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer, présenté en première le 19 décembre 1991, par Adrienne Clarkson. Clarkson fait l'éloge de Findley, qu'elle décrit comme étant « one of Canada's most honoured writers... », et qu'elle nous montre explorant le processus de création littéraire tel que Findley lui-même l'a expérimenté. Le documentaire en question a le mérite de nous faire saisir l'univers à la fois physique et intellectuel de Findley. On le retrouve sur sa ferme de Cannington, en Ontario, ferme qu'il a baptisé «Stone Orchard en 1964, pour nousrappeler la dette qu'il doit à son dramaturge favori, Anton Chekhov, auteur de l'immortel Cherry Orchard. […
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