Prompted by actress Ruth Gordon and encouraged by Thornton Wilder, Timothy Findley began to write seriously in 1956. Yet for twenty years he was best known as an actor and author of radio and televisi...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher
["The Last of the Crazy People"] is almost as pleasing as its odd title. An attempt to explain the far too frequent and inexplicable headline, "...
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Critical Essay by Elspeth Cameron
Ezra Pound in his poem sequence "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" claimed that "The age demanded an image / Of its accelerated grimace, / Something for th...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Parton
Like Ben Piazza, who three years ago wrote a moving first novel about boyhood called The Exact and Very Strange Truth, Timothy Findley is an actor. Again like Piazza...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
1930's Hollywood, with its overripe stars, larger-than-life styles, extravagant successes and even more extravagant failures, and the nightmare barbarities ...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[The Butterfly Plague] resembles an appreciative description of a fantastic film, the kind that depends on surrealistic images and a voguish "se...
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Critical Essay by Ian Mclachlan
[The protagonist of Pound's modernist poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"] is the main character—initially, at least—in Timothy Findley...
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In the following essay, Hulcoop provides a stylisticc discussion of Findley's work, examining how Findley uses textual and sensual markers in his early fiction as a means of drawing the reader ...
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Draper is a libratian. In the review below, he praises The Piano Man's Daughter for its focus on the past, its characterization, and its readability.
Some books set in the past try to ape th...
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In the following, Bemrose assesses the plot and principal theme of The Piano Man's Daughter.
So often, Timothy Findley's fiction circles some central image, like a tribe dancing aroun...
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In the favorable review below, Tonkin discusses Findley's focus on history, historical figures, and nostalgia in Famous Last Words, noting the book's contemporary relevance.
In this c...
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York is an educator. In the essay below, she delineates Findley's focus on war and conflict in The Last of the Crazy People, "Lemonade," and other early works.
It is no coincid...
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