Difficulties of a Bridegroom
Ted Hughes once confessed that most of his short fiction was merely "an accompaniment to my poems." But there are many gems here, including the affecting trilogy portraying the poet's South Yorkshire childhood. The finest tale in this collection may be "The Wound," actually a radio play about a...
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Ted Hughes once confessed that most of his short fiction was merely "an accompaniment to my poems." But there are many gems here, including the affecting trilogy portraying the poet's South Yorkshire childhood. The finest tale in this collection may be "The Wound," actually a radio play about a dying soldier trekking across a pitiless desert. The death-march transforms itself into an allegory of the Buddhist path from death to rebirth. Most of these short stories date from the 1950s and 60s, before Hughes became a famous poet.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571174829 (0571174825)
ASIN: 0571174825
Publish date: 1996-01-01
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Six out of nine stories were familiar to me as they are reprinted from Wodwo. The remaining three were the best ones! I don't get on very well with symbolism in literature but it was Hughes' favourite thing, so these stories were mostly very hard to decipher and I don't think I really succeeded. T...
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