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The Green Fool is a childhood memoir by Irish poet and novelist Patrick Kavanagh. It resurfaced in late 2018 or early 2019 when it emerged that Kavanagh had become involved in a dispute with bookshop Hodges Figgis over its treatment of The Green Fool, leading him to throw books around in annoyance. References
- Patrick Kavanagh
- 1971
7 de ene. de 1975 · Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip.
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12 de ene. de 2021 · The green fool by Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967. Publication date 1975 Topics
The Green Fool, a loosely autobiographical novel, was published in 1938 and Kavanagh was accused of libel. Oliver St. John Gogarty sued Kavanagh for his description of his first visit to Gogarty's home: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife or his mistress; I expected every poet to have a spare wife."
2 de oct. de 2020 · The Green Fool, published in 1938 is a childhood memoir of Kavanagh’s own life up until the point of publication. Like many books of this kind, one imagines truth would be hard to find in the text but Kavanagh offers more than that, this book offers truths by the boatload regarding Irish life, culture, and psyche.
22 de feb. de 2001 · The Green Fool. Patrick Kavanagh. Penguin Books Limited, Feb 22, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 272 pages. My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no...
Surprisingly, in view of his ambitions as a poet, Kavanagh’s first major critical success came with the publication of an autobiographical prose work titled The Green Fool (1938). In this book, which he later revealed was as much novel as autobiography, Kavanagh recounts his rural childhood and his struggles as a budding writer, and while ...
