Keeping On Keeping On

By Alan Bennett

'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I should still be a teddy bear.'

Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks), a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.

There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library. The book includes Denmark Hill, a darkly comic radio play set in suburban south London, as well as Bennett's reflections on a quarter of a century's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner. This is an engaging, humane, sharp, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Profile Faber
• Release date: Oct 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781782832553

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett es autor de muchas y celebradas obras teatrales como "Habeas Corpus", "Forty One Years On", "Kafka's Dick" o "The Madness of George III" (adaptada después al cine), guiones cinematográficos como Prick Up Your Ears (basado en la vida de Joe Orton), y piezas televisivas, en especial "Talking Heads" y "An Englishman Abroad", que lo han convertido en uno de los autores británicos más queridos. Asimismo es muy apreciado como actor. Empezó a escribir es prosa hace solo unos diez años.

Reviews for Keeping On Keeping On

[jcolvin_14 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The greater part of the book comprises extracts from the author's diaries from 2010 t0 2015. These are usually interesting although, as Mr Bennett himself says, there are perhaps a few too many visits to churches.The rest of the book contians a couple of play scripts, with the introductions to them and to other better known plays, or films made from them. Alan Bennett rarely disappoints.