Against the backdrop of an English country hotel in a languid pre-war summer, Denton Welch's alter ego, Orvil Pym, examines his early life and formative experiences with a Proustian intensity. An adolescent voyeur, Orvil takes pleasure in the micros…
"Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure." - John WatersFlagrantly controversial on its first publication in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual des…
'After I had run away from school, no one knew what to do with me...'Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death. There he suffered, and soon absconde…
“Når man spørger mig, hvilken forfatter der har haft den mest direkte indflydelse på mit eget arbejde, kan jeg svare uden tøven: Denton Welch.” - William S. Burroughs “Måske findes der ikke en bedre roman her i verden end Denton We…
Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welch's sixteenth year, when he ran away from his English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. The book was Welch's first and created a sensation on publication in 1943; it…
In the last eight years of his life - and he died when he was only thirty-three - Denton Welch wrote three novels, umpteen short stories, hundreds of poems, and - between 1942 and 1948, a profoundly personal and moving journal that recorded his swif…
The third volume in Enitharmon's "Denton Welch" series is his autobiographical novella, "I Left My Grandfather's House", written in 1943, first published posthumously in 1958 and only briefly in print since. In the novella, Welch recounts a walking…
"Certainly the writer who most directly influenced my work." - William S. Burroughs A Voice Through A Cloud is Denton Welch's unfinished masterpiece.Welch, one of the most gifted creative artists of his generation, died in 1948 at the age of thirty-…
Denton Welch, one of the most gifted creative artists of his generation, died in 1948 at the age of thirty-one, leaving this, perhaps his finest work, almost but not quite completed. Under the thin disguise of fiction Denton Welch recreates the worl…
