Dec 26, 2009
The Aerodrome | The Aerodrome
At a glance:
- Author: Rex Warner
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Allegory
- Time of Work: Shortly after the beginning of World War II
- Setting: An imaginary yet typical English village
- Principal Characters: Roy, Bess, The Flight-Lieutenant, The Air Vice-Marshal, Anthony, Eustasia, The Rector, The Squire
- Genres: Long fiction, Allegory
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, World War II, England or English people, Progress, Airplanes or jets, Aeronautics
- Locales: England
The Novel
Written in the form of a first-person narrative of events that transpired in a single year following
an April dinner party to celebrate Roy’s twenty-first birthday, The Aerodrome is a
study of his ambivalence when confronted with the dilemmas that have to be faced at the juncture of
adolescence and adulthood and when traditional, unquestioned ways are confronted by new and
appealing ones that demand acceptance or rejection almost immediately.
The narrative opens with Roy, who has been told that his “parents” are actually
his guardians, recovering...
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