Dirk Bogarde

A Short Walk from Harrods (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The latest volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography. 'I learned very early on in my life that nothing was for ever; so I should have been aware of disillusion in early middle age: but, somehow, we try to obliterate early warnings and go cantering along hopefully, idiotically ...'No matter that the tide will turn once again and destroy all that you build (and in the depth; of your soul you know that this will happen), you thrust the spade in the hard-packed rippled sand, outline the beginning of a moat. Soon the fort will arise, decorated all about, once again, with shells and weed, with towers and turrets, arches and a drawbridge, each turret capped with a conical limpet shell. As glorious as the first one ever was, probably even better from the experience gained by its destruction, and every bit as impermanent ...'How odd it is that one is not prepared for the "dissolving of the fort" one has constructed with such care in later life. But we do not learn. We always believe that it'll be all right for us. That our fort will stand, the tide will never turn. But, of course, it does.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448208319
• Artikelnr.: 38312299

Autorenporträt

Sir Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999) was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death In Venice; between 1947 and 1991, Bogarde made more than sixty films. In 1985 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews and in 1990 was promoted to Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Sir Dirk Bogarde has a legion of fans to this day - an extraordinary commitment to an extraordinary man.