John Mulgan (1911–1945)
Auteur de Man Alone
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947 by Charles Brasch, OUP 1980
Œuvres de John Mulgan
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1911-12-31
- Date de décès
- 1945-04-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- New Zealand
- Lieu de naissance
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Lieu du décès
- Cairo, Egypt
- Lieux de résidence
- Auckland, New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
Athens, Greece
Cairo, Egypt
England, UK - Études
- Auckland Grammar School
University of Oxford (Merton College)
Wellington College - Professions
- soldier
writer - Relations
- Mulgan, Alan (father)
Mulgan, Richard (son) - Organisations
- British Army (WWII)
Oxford University Press - Prix et distinctions
- Military Cross (1945)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 141
- Popularité
- #145,671
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 19
After posting the manuscript of the book to his wife in New Zealand in March 1945, Mulgan committed suicide in his Cairo hotel room for reasons unknown. 'Report on Experience' was published posthumously in 1947, although with several modifications to tone down his opinions, and protect the identities of the officer's being criticized. In this new edition the original text is restored, all the changes being footnoted and the 1947 modified text included for comparison.
This book is certainly not an easy read, but an important and interesting social commentary on life in pre-war England, Mulgan's criticisms of his military commanders during World War II, as well as life on the battlefield during wartime.
On page 193 he comments 'any home will be all right in the meantime where there is liberty and enough security to be with the people that you care about' and that all people require 'is any home that is not entirely dirt and squalor, and enought food so that they do not always have to be remembering that they are hungry, and enough time to realize that they are happy at last, and enough security to know that there will be work next week as well as this'. I'm sure this rings true for all of us.… (plus d'informations)