Cronin, Anthony

Samuel Beckett : the last modernist by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
13 editions published between 1996 and 1999 in English and held by 885 libraries worldwide
"Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a writer." "Cronin explores how the sporty schoolboy of solid Protestant bourgeois stock became a prizewinning student at Trinity, flirted with scholarship, and, in Paris, found himself at the center of its literary avant-garde as an intimate friend of James Joyce. But he was a young man who struggled with complexities in his own nature as well as with problems of literary expression. In the small provincial city of Kassel, Germany, the cosmopolitan Beckett experienced a faltering entanglement with his cousin - one of the first in a series of problematic encounters with women." "The war years, which he spent as a member of the Resistance and a refugee in the South of France, brought Beckett the self-probings and discoveries that led to the great works. Then, with his sudden and astonishing fame, the balloons of myth began to inflate and a stereotype was born - frozen in exile and enigma, solemnity and sanctity." "Anthony Cronin bursts these balloons to see more clearly what lies behind. Without moralizing or psychologizing, without pretensions or piety, he uncovers the real Beckett, the way the life was lived, the way the art was made."--BOOK JACKET.

No laughing matter : the life and times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
22 editions published between 1989 and 2003 in English and held by 703 libraries worldwide

Heritage now : Irish literature in the English language by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
9 editions published between 1982 and 1983 in English and held by 691 libraries worldwide

The life of Riley by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
13 editions published between 1964 and 2010 in English and French and held by 294 libraries worldwide

A question of modernity by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
5 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 292 libraries worldwide

Magnum Ireland ( Book )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 283 libraries worldwide

Ireland, a week in the life of a nation ( Book )
2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 221 libraries worldwide

Dead as doornails : a chronicle of life by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
14 editions published between 1976 and 1987 in English and held by 215 libraries worldwide

New & selected poems by Anthony Cronin ( Book )
3 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 146 libraries worldwide

Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 136 libraries worldwide
Based on the diary Cahiers, Nijinsky explores the mind of a genius on the outer edge of reason. Through the use of visual imagery seen from Nijinsky's point of view, the film reflects salient moments of his life through the characters he danced as well as his personal relationships with his wife, daughter, in-laws, and his mentor/lover, the notorious impresario Diaghelev.