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Perhaps the central piece in the book is the now-famous article A Short
Walk from Harrods , which Bogarde wrote for the Independent on Sunday
soon after returning to London. In it he describes what it feels like to
walk among familiar ghosts and to dine with those he considers the
living dead . A momentous review of three Holocaust books is accompanied
by an article in which he describes the extraordinary postbag he
received from its readers. In another piece which had a profound impact,
he gives forceful vent to his support for euthanasia.
But as well as the dark and the controversial, there are also charming
and touching essays on his earliest childhood; reflections on the
not-quite-ruined Riviera, where the magic still exists ( It will always
be, for all time, better than Rio, or Hong Kong, or Bermuda, or anywhere
else in the world ); and on friends and colleagues from his career as an
actor Joseph Losey, Charlotte Rampling, Luchino Visconti and Brigitte Bardot.
With a specially written introduction and new reflections on several of
the pieces, For the Time Being
brings together virtually all the work of Dirk Bogarde published outside
his novels and autobiographies. It stands as a testimony to a
wonderfully varied life, a wide range of interests and sympathies, and a
remarkable gift for writing. I>admiring the lucid frankness of
Bogarde s memoirs, invited him to review some books for the newspaper.
Over the next eight years or so, Bogarde wrote much of the criticism,
essays, obituaries, fragments of autobiography and appreciations which
are collected in this volume - a body of work that offers fascinating
insights into the life, mind and views of one of Britain s most admired
authors and actors.Daily Telegraph, < >
Perhaps the central piece in the book is the now-famous article A Short
Walk from Harrods , which Bogarde wrote for the Independent on Sunday
soon after returning to London. In it he describes what it feels like to
walk among familiar ghosts and to dine with those he considers the
living dead . A momentous review of three Holocaust books is accompanied
by an article in which he describes the extraordinary postbag he
received from its readers. In another piece which had a profound impact,
he gives forceful vent to his support for euthanasia.
But as well as the dark and the controversial, there are also charming
and touching essays on his earliest childhood; reflections on the
not-quite-ruined Riviera, where the magic still exists ( It will always
be, for all time, better than Rio, or Hong Kong, or Bermuda, or anywhere
else in the world ); and on friends and colleagues from his career as an
actor Joseph Losey, Charlotte Rampling, Luchino Visconti and Brigitte Bardot.
With a specially written introduction and new reflections on several of
the pieces, For the Time Being
brings together virtually all the work of Dirk Bogarde published outside
his novels and autobiographies. It stands as a testimony to a
wonderfully varied life, a wide range of interests and sympathies, and a
remarkable gift for writing. I>admiring the lucid frankness of
Bogarde s memoirs, invited him to review some books for the newspaper.
Over the next eight years or so, Bogarde wrote much of the criticism,
essays, obituaries, fragments of autobiography and appreciations which
are collected in this volume - a body of work that offers fascinating
insights into the life, mind and views of one of Britain s most admired
authors and actors.Daily Telegraph, <
