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LITTERATEUR

NOVEL AND ROMANCE

IN THE WAR WITHOUT

BATTLES OF J.G. FARREL

James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August

1979) was an English-born novelist of Irish descent
who spent much of his childhood in Ireland. He
gained prominence for a series of novels known as
"the Empire Trilogy" (Troubles, The Siege of
Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip), which deal

with the political and human consequences of
British colonial rule. Farrell's career abruptly ended
when he drowned in Ireland at the age of 44, falling
to his death in a storm. "Had he not sadly died so
young,” Salman Rushdie said in 2008, "there is no
question that he would today be one of the really

major novelists of the English language. The three
novels that he did leave are all in their different way
extraordinary. Troubles received the 1971 Geoffrey
Faber Memorial Prize and The Siege of
Krishnapur received the 1973 Booker Prize. In
Anna Maria Dall’Olio
2010 Troubles was retrospectively awarded the Lost
Man Booker Prize, created to recognise works
published in 1970. Troubles and its fellow shortlisted
works had not been open for consideration that year
due to a change in the eligibility rules.
Ranked second in “Hanojo-via Rendevuo”a
Anna Maria Dall’Olio analyses the dissimilarity
Vietnamese competition in Esperanto (2005), Anna
between the novel and romance and convince us
Maria Dall’Olio is ardent writer of fiction, poetry and
that the story (the Troubles) has the upper hand,
playwriting, She teaches English in Italian high
the novel prevails over romance: schools.

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