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Giles Lytton Strachey (Londra, 1º marzo 1880 – 21 gennaio 1932) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e saggista britannico. È conosciuto per essere stato uno dei membri del Bloomsbury Group e per aver fondato l'istituzione di una nuova forma di biografia in cui l'intuizione psicologica e la simpatia sono combinate con ...
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians , he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence ...
6 ago 2018 · Lytton Strachey’s explosive biographies demolished reputations – not even Florence Nightingale escaped his wrath. But what is his impact on life writing?
10 apr 2024 · Lytton Strachey (born March 1, 1880, London—died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng.) was an English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and especially to the monumental life-and-letters volumes of ...
Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918, and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.
In Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd compone il ritratto di uno fra i più originali scrittori inglesi e di una storia di passione amorosa totalizzante, offrendo allo stesso tempo la rappresentazione più intima di una stagione mitica della civiltà letteraria europea.
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a historian, literary critic, and Bloomsbury wit whose ironic prose style and sense of rupture with the Victorian past helped to define English literary modernism.
