The Gatekeeper: A Memoir

Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.

• Author
• Terry Eagleton

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Griffin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-31613-6

• EAN
• 9780312316136

• Characters
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Oscar Wilde, Leon Trotsky, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• Genres
• biography, philosophy, religion, memoir, autobiography

• Release date
• 2003