Diese autobiografische Reihe taucht in die prägenden Jahre der Autorin in Neuseeland ein und schildert eine Kindheit und Jugend in einer materiell armen, aber intellektuell intensiven Familie. Sie beschreibt lebhaft ihre ersten Begegnungen mit Liebe, Tod und der Welt der Worte, insbesondere der Poesie. Die Erzählungen fangen tiefgreifende innere Erfahrungen und die Formung einer künstlerischen Seele in einer einzigartigen Umgebung ein.
An Autobiography
"[This book] is [an] ... account of a childhood and adolescence in a New Zealand family in the 1920s and 1930s. ... Its ... language brings alive in vivid detail her home, materially poor but intellectually intense, and her first encounters with love and death. It follows [Frame's] explorations into the worlds of words and poetry. ..."--Back cover
In ihrem autobiografischen Roman, in Deutschland gesammelt unter dem Titel Ein Engel an meiner Tafel erschienen, erzählt Janet Frame von ihrer außergewöhnlichen Entwicklung, die nicht nur von ihrem Umfeld, dem proletarischen Neuseeland der Kriegs- und Nachkriegszeit, sondern auch von verschiedenen Autoren der Weltliteratur beeinflusst wurde
New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors." Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive.
New Zealand's preeminent writer brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections.