Ushant (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Conrad Aiken
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: England, Europe, Georgia, Massachusetts, and aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean
- Principal Characters: D., His Parents, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Voyages, Dreams, Islands, Creative process, Ships
Form and Content
Conrad Aiken’s Ushant, the poet’s major prose work, falls into no clear literary category. It is at once an autobiography, a confession, and a participatory novel which involves the reader in the journey of remembrance, creation, and imagination on which Aiken sets forth. Following the precedents of such writers as Laurence Sterne and James Joyce in his use of free-association and stream-of-consciousness techniques, Aiken created a literary form to suit his needs, allowing the contents of his memory and the honesty of his self-analysis to...
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