Introduction 4 chapter I. The age of modernism

CHAPTER II. CHARACTERISTICS OF WRITING STYLE IN THE NOVEL "HATTER’S CASTLE".

2.1.Archibald Joseph Cronin's style of writing.

In 1930, Croning was diagnosed with a chronic duodenal ulcer and was told he had to rest in the country for six months on a dairy diet. At Dalhen's Loch Fyne farm, he was finally able to satisfy his long-standing desire to write a novel because he had so far "written nothing but recipes and scientific articles." From Dulhen's farm he went to Dumbarton to study the history of his first novel. , Using files from the Dumbarton library, he still saves Kroni's letter asking for advice. He wrote The Hatter's Tower in three months, and the manuscript was quickly accepted by Gollanc, the only publisher to whom it was sent (apparently chosen by his wife to place a random mark on the list of publishers). The novel was an immediate and sensational success, beginning Kronin’s career as a prolific author. He never returned to medical practice.
Many of Kronin’s books were bestsellers of their time and have been translated into many languages. Some of his stories are based on his medical career, mixing realism, romance and social criticism. Kronin’s work explores the moral contradictions between man and society as his idealistic protagonists seek justice for the common man. One of his first novels, Stars Look Down (1935), was about the crimes committed by a mining community in the north-east of England and how an ambitious miner became a Member of Parliament.
Surprisingly fast writer Kronin loved to write an average of 5,000 words a day, carefully planning the details of his plots in advance. Although he stood out in his personal life , he was known for his toughness in business relationships. humor ... experienced his conversations, ”said Peter Haying, one of its editors.
AJ Kronin, author of The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fortress, and many others, knew neither style, form, nor technique when he began his first novel. It was hard for him to express himself. He struggled over the paragraph for hours. “Sudden devastation hit me like an avalanche,” he writes of the period. "I decided to give it all up." Cronin dropped the manuscript, then, embarrassed by the Scottish farmer, took his papers out of the ashtray, dried them in the oven, and stubbornly set to work. In three months, which he called "brutal efforts," he completed his novel The Fortress of the Cap, which sold millions of copies. Some things can be learned by repeating dates in history, for example, but this is not the style. This should be assessed with sensitivity and then put into practice .
This is a painstaking research. No matter how successful we are, our pens will fail for a while from time to time. We pause, rewrite, and correct until we are sure that our language has done justice to what we want to express. The genius moves, improves with practice, fails, and often succeeds in the second or third attempt. Plato is said to have written the preface to his republic seven times in different ways.
Waiting for inspiration is a trap. The peaks of the great work rise only after relentless labor and toil. This work is not just pressing typewriter buttons or drawing with a stylus. It requires reading and re-reading what is written - reading aloud to feel. It means a constant course of self-criticism : did I say what I wanted to say? Did I really use words to describe it? Are my images, parables, or metaphors the best? Did I inevitably say something ugly or too long?
When the writer re-reads, his heart hardens into good phrases and flowing paragraphs. He condemns soulless phrases, condemns rude and formless things, emphasizes their inaccuracy, cuts off excess words and phrases while maintaining the dignity of repetition, removes distracting ornaments, rearranges vague things and will be willing to give up these parts. the ones that are hard to understand.
When I re-read the devil, I don’t see anything that needs to be erased, even if I wrote it .
Coincidentally, AJ Kronin, now best known for his Dr. Finley Keysbook programs, was a general practitioner in Tredegar, Montmouthshire in the early 1920s, at the same time as Aneurin Bevan, who was born there. It is unbelievable that they did not meet, although there is no evidence that they met. Bevan worked in the Tredegar Workers ’Medical Society in that traditional mining community, and Kronin was particularly interested in the effects of coal dust on the miners’ lungs. Bevan was on his way to becoming an NHS architect as Labor Minister of Health , and Kronin’s career led him to a medical practice in London and a very successful career as a writer. His first novel, The Fortress of the Cap, was written while he was on long vacation from a duodenal ulcer and was published in 1930 by Victor Gollancz Ltd. and immediately won criticism and public recognition. He never practiced again .¹
Kronin’s next novel, The Citadel (1937) (in this issue considered by Graham Watt as the first book in our BJGP library series), is widely regarded as an important contribution to the thinking that led to the formation of the NHS. His character is a young mining company doctor who has suffered from all the ailments of unregulated private medical practice; in his words, doctors who “made stealing guinea and deceiving patients an art form”. In it, Kronin said:
“I wrote everything I could think of about the medical profession, its injustice, its rigid scientific groundless stubbornness, its nonsense. I have personally witnessed the horror and injustice described in detail in this story. It's an attack on the system, not on individuals. "
AJ Kronin was born in 1896 in Cardross , Dumbartonshire. He was a great athlete as well as an excellent student; With honors in medicine from Glasgow . Prior to moving to Tredegar, he worked in Rotunda, Dublin and Clyde. He was a medical inspector of the mines and was involved in the disaster at the Eastfad mine, where 38 miners drowned, and in his letters he draws on this experience. He moved to Harley Street in London and finally established a very successful practice at 152 Westbourne Grove on Notting Hill in west London, where he practiced until 1930.
Members of the Cronin family include his biographer Alan Davies and David Rintoul , who played Dr. Finlay in the second TV series . College archivist Sharon Messenger developed this commemorative event, which was supported by the RCGP Legacy Committee and Genesis Housing, and included conversations between Alan Davis and medical historian Dr. Ruth Richardson about Kronin’s medical and literary heritage. the original idea of erecting a memorial plaque.¹
Scottish physician AJCronin has died, and his novels, including The Hat Castle, The Castle, and The Keys of the Kingdom, have made him one of the most famous authors in the English-speaking world. at the clinic in the village of Glion, near Montreux, Switzerland, on Tuesday at the age of 84, where he has lived for the past 25 years. Dr. Cronin's death was announced yesterday after a private Roman Catholic service attended by his three sons at Notre Dame Church in Vevey.
Cardossa , he received American citizenship after World War II. Dr. Cronin worked for the British Ministry of Information and for several years in the United States. Before he moved to Switzerland, I and I lived in the Blue Hills in Greenwich and New Canada in Connecticut.
In recent years, his books have not been a major factor in the market, and he has not released a single bestseller that once amazed readers. However, some of his famous books, including The Castle (1937), The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), The Shennon Road (1948), and The Adventures of Two Men, are still in print. Worlds (1956), his biography.
Medical Inspector in South Wales
Archibald Joseph Cronin grew up in Dumbarton, served in the Royal Navy during World War I, and in 1925 received his doctorate from the University of Glasgow. He became a mining health inspector in South Wales and later opened internships in Glasgow and London.
Although he had nothing but patients ’prescriptions, he decided to give himself a try. Recovering from a stomach ulcer on an abandoned farm in the mountains, he wrote The Hatter's Castle in 1931 about a Scottish captain who was devoted to the idea of his noble birth. It became a bestseller in the UK. In the United States, a commentator for The New York Times called it the work of a writer "designed for the strong."
After that, Dr. Kronin devoted himself entirely to writing. In 1935, he wrote a short story called “Stars Look Down,” which quickly caught the attention of a group of miners in the north of England. The Times of London described the writer as "prone to melodrama", while the New York Times described him as "as unusual as Dickens". In 1941, the book was turned into a highly acclaimed film for MGM by director Carol Reid. .
Missionary history in China
The citadel again used Mr. Cronin's own experience. It was the story of a young Scottish doctor who opened a fashion practice in London and realized the value of a life he had given up in a Welsh mining village. Critics have lagged behind the public in assessing his romanticistic qualities.
When The Keys of the Kingdom was published in 1941, it crossed the half-million mark in sales and was selected by the Book of the Moon Club. The protagonist of the novel is a selfless Catholic priest sent by his superiors for a long-term missionary service in China. Some critics considered his protagonist to be very pious, but Dr. Cronin, a Catholic, said he wrote based on his knowledge of religion.
By 1958, the total sales of his books in the United States had exceeded seven million. In response to literary critics, Dr. Cronin said:
“I think there are very few giants. All good writers melt into philosophies of melancholy, depression, and despair. They don't seem to have incentives - I'm not talking about Christian morality - but they don't seem to have the light to guide them.
In recent years, Dr. Kronin has used his experience to make Dr. Finlay Casebook is about a couple of Scottish doctors who share this practice. It became one of the longest running British TV series.
In 1921, Dr. Cronin married Dr. Agnes Mary Gibson, a physician in a nursing home in Canada. Three sons survived, including writer Vincent Cronin.
Kronin returned to Europe to spend the last 25 years of his life in Lucerne and Montreux, Switzerland. He continued writing until he was eighty. His friends included Lawrence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin and Audrey Hepburn, whose first son was a baptized father.
Although he spent the last part of his life entirely abroad, Kronin had a great love for his childhood field and in 1972 wrote to a local teacher: "I have traveled the world. but I must honestly say that my heart belongs to Dumbarton ... I have a beautiful 17th century The Rock carving in my office ... I even follow the fate of the Dumbarton football team with great enthusiasm. " Another piece of evidence of Kronin's lifelong support for Dumbarton FC came from a letter typed in a framed car hanging in the lobby of the club's stadium.