Word: maughamism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uncoached, Undazzled. Gauguin in the South Seas should surprise readers who have been accustomed to the legend of the man inspired by Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence and propagated by art dealers. Moreover, Biographer Danielsson stands in no perceptible awe of his subject's artistic stature...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
...artists so often cited as evidence of the homosexual's creativity-the Leonardos and Michelangelos -are probably the exceptions of genius. For the most part, thinks Los Angeles Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook, homosexuals are failed artists, and their special creative gift a myth. No less an authority than Somerset Maugham felt that the homosexual, "however subtly he sees life, cannot see it whole," and lacks "the deep seriousness over certain things that normal men take seriously ... He has small power of invention, but a wonderful gift for delightful embroidery. He has vitality, brilliance, but seldom strength...
...afflicted with a humiliating stammer, the young Maugham recoiled in misery from the hostile new environment. At the vicarage, his uncle pumped him so full of religion that Maugham ultimately rejected God; he remained a nonbeliever all his life. At King's School in Canterbury, classmates and even the headmaster mocked his speech impediment. These unhappy transplanted years were later to appear in Of Human Bondage, the most intensely autobiographical of his novels. Even years later, he was unable to read it without tears...
...writer in Maugham emerged at medical school in London, where before getting his degree he waded systematically, if surreptitiously, through the classics and published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, in 1897. Maugham was 23. Liza was only a modest success, but on the strength of it, he abandoned medicine for good...