num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
titlecomplete: The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
characters: Leon Trotsky, Oscar Wilde, David Harvey, T.S. Eliot, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Perry Anderson, Raymond Williams, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Francis Fukuyama, Walter Benjamin, E.P. Thompson, Bertolt Brecht, D.H. Lawrence
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Biography, Literary Criticism, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 179
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin