Colour of Distance New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand

Name: Colour of Distance New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand
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ISBN: 9780864735058

ISBN-10: 0864735057

ISBN-13: 9780864735058

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien

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Since early in the 20th century, when Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories in Menton on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writers—among them Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, James K. Baxter and Michael King. French writers have, in turn, visited New Zealand—among them Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis Lalanne, and Charles Juliet—and their imaginative engagement with the region is also represented. Not only has the experience of New Zealanders living in France enriched New Zealand's literature—for example, the…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Publication date: 4/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.166



Drunken gunners, Wissant-sur-Mer, fragment of an autobiography



From Indirections



From A musician's journal



Avignon summer 1978



At Serrieres



From Homage to Matisse



France for the weekend



From Paris



At St.-Romphaire, Georges, at Angey, Bonjour la France



Continents



The French translation



From The vintner's luck



From The book of fame



Ode to the little hotel



Coming home



Song : Alzon



Qui etes-vous vraiment Monsieur Meryon?



Christmas in New Zealand



From La Melee Fantastique



Breathless



Paekakariki



From Son of France



From The miserables



Visiting Janet Frame



From Au pays du long nuage blanc



Sanary



Villa Isola Bella



From Maata



Letter to Katherine Mansfield



Love affair



From Mansfield



From Letters and journals



Gare SNCF Garavan, a nice place on the Riviera



When I was a writer



A last note from Menton



From Living in the Maniototo



How nice, Paschal numbers



From Unquiet world



From The transformation



Dedication



Letter from Menton



Cote d'Azur



From The quick world, Easter Saturday in Menton, Turning point



Meeting Patrick White



All souls : Menton, Villa Isola Bella



From Daylight



From Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame



Villa Ephrussi