Eagleton's "anti-autobiography"

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Sun Aug 11 10:20:44 PDT 2002


On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 at 11:21am Peter K. wrote:


> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/books/review/11TURNERT.html

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Eagleton is halfway through his entrance exam at Cambridge when his tutor, the pseudonymous Dr. Greenway, tells him his father has died. Terry goes home for the funeral but is accepted anyway, then spends the next three years ''sick at heart . . . as though I had murdered to get in.'' As an undergraduate, he argues constantly with Greenway about the meaning and value of tragedy. For Greenway, it's a noble art form, ''on a level with 'chivalry' or 'sauteed oysters.' '' For Terry, tragedy is real, and terrible, and to do with ''pain . . . class, sacrifice, trauma'' and the point at which all of these converge.

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Who is Greenway?

-- no Onan

Undefeated, everybody goes home



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