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Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful ...
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Cyril Vernon Connolly (Coventry, 10 settembre 1903 – Londra, 26 novembre 1974) è stato un critico letterario e scrittore britannico. Compagno di scuola di George Orwell e Cecil Beaton alla St Cyprian's School, ebbe a scrivere: «Orwell mi diede prova che esisteva un'alternativa al carattere, l'Intelligenza.
Cyril Connolly was the celebrated critic-editor of Horizon magazine. His book Enemies of Promise, about why he failed to become a novelist, has become the sacred text of literary underachievers ever since. Connolly’s early friends included George Orwell, Cecil Beaton and Kenneth Clark.
Londra. Giornalista e critico inglese (Coventry 1903 - Londra 1974). Fondò (1939) e diresse con S. Spender fino al 1949, poi da solo fino alla fine (195...
Cyril Connolly. Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 – 1974), letterato britannico. Citazioni di Cyril Connolly [ modifica] Distruggetelo come volete, il borghese rispunta sempre. Condannatelo a morte, espropriatelo, fatelo morire di fame "en masse", e riapparirà nei vostri figli.
Cyril Connolly (born September 10, 1903, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died November 26, 1974, London) was an English critic, novelist, and man of letters, founder and editor of Horizon, a magazine of contemporary literature that was a major influence in Britain in its time (1939–50).
Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire in 1903. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford he was a regular contributor to the New Statesman in the 1930s. Connolly also co-edited Horizon (1939-41) with Stephen Spender and later was literary editor of the The Observer.
