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It was during his illness, in 1887,
when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the
battle dramatised in this play – a
battle imagined in his body, and in his
mind, and in his moral nature – could
have taken place
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THE WAKING & MAKING OF
PAUL GAUGUIN
Front cover: Hybrid tree peony ‘Gauguin’ – Paeoniaceae hybrid Book Description It was during his illness, in 1887, when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the battle dramatised in this play – a battle imagined in his body, and in his mind, and in his moral nature – could have taken place. THE AWAKING & MAKING OF PAUL GAUGUIN was written as a radio play, from which scenes were extracted and dramatised by the South African Broadcasting Corporation and broadcast in a programme-series called THE POET’S VOICE. It was written in a 4-stress line without rhyme, which the author personally likes to think of as a modern Anglo Saxon alliterative line – although it isn’t alliterative and with no middle-line division – now lined-out as prose to make it more appealing to a general reader.
Roy Holland was born in Birmingham. He went to Africa in 1966 to teach in the universities of the Boleswa countries. In 1971 he went to Greece for three years. He and his family lived on the island of Levkas for six months, the Gulf of Corinth for a similar period, and in Corfu for a little over two years. He wrote full-time until 1974, when he returned to the U.K. and worked on a research project until returning to Africa in 1977. Thereafter he lived in Southern Africa and worked in universities in Zimbabwe, Lebowa and Venda. He was Professor of English at the University of the North, the University of Venda, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the later 80's. He retired early to write full-time, and now lives in Ledbury, Herefordshire.
Other works by Roy Holland:
A young man in Birmingham, in the sixties, escapes the
humdrum mundanity of life through fantasies, tries to find
himself, and finally escapes his dead-end lifestyle by
gaining a place at a university.
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Roy
Holland
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