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Edwin and Willa Muir - A Literary Marriage (Hardcover)
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Edwin and Willa Muir - A Literary Marriage (Hardcover)
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This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the
partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from
small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in
the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about
the cultural, social, and political issues of those dynamic and
difficult years and much else, in intimate detail, about their own
personal struggles. Edwin Muir was to become a leading poet in the
twentieth century Scottish literary renaissance, but to make a
living the couple also worked as translators of modern German
literature, including key works by Hermann Broch and, most
famously, Franz Kafka. They were intimate with many of the leading
writers of their time, both at home and abroad, and these contacts,
and their travels in Europe gave them a special and sometimes
painful insight into the trials of the twentieth century. Dr
Margery McCulloch's study draws on personal travel and a wealth of
new sources from private correspondence, publishers' archives, the
recollections of friends, and the dairies, unpublished journals,
and autobiographical memoirs of Edwin and Willa themselves. This is
the fullest account of the couple's life and times together during
a long and loving marriage, not without its difficulties as Willa
struggled to find proper acknowledgement of her translation skills,
and space for her own creativity as a novelist in the shadow of her
own ill health and Edwin's growing status as a major modern poet.
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