The Dirty Dust / Cré Na Cille: Cre Na Cille - Rilegato

Ó Cadhain, Máirtín

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ISBN 10: 0300198493 ISBN 13: 9780300198492

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley’s vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of Ó Cadhain’s original, at last brings the pleasures of this great satiric novel to the far wider audience it deserves.
 
In The Dirty Dust all characters lie dead in their graves. This, however, does not impair their banter or their appetite for news of aboveground happenings from the recently arrived. Told entirely in dialogue, Ó Cadhain’s daring novel listens in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community. In the afterlife, it seems, the same old life goes on beneath the sod. Only nothing can be done about it—apart from talk. In this merciless yet comical portrayal of a closely bound community, Ó Cadhain remains keenly attuned to the absurdity of human behavior, the lilt of Irish gab, and the nasty, deceptive magic of human connection.

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L'autore:

Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) is considered one of the most significant writers in the Irish language and among all writers of the twentieth century. A lifelong language-rights activist, he invigorated the Irish language and Irish literature as well as modernist literature at large. Alan Titley, a novelist, story writer, playwright, and scholar, writes a weekly column forThe Irish Times on current and cultural matters.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300198493
• ISBN 13: 9780300198492
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308