Irish Classics - Hardcover

Kiberd, Declan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862073864 ISBN 13: 9781862073869

Verlag: Granta Books, 2000

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Críticas:

The most immediately striking aspect of Kiberd's brave enterprise is the sheer accessibility of the texts selected. There is never a suggestion of unworthiness in this ambitious survey of the enduring Irish classics, and the author's avowed intention of choosing works that challenge each successive generation is effortlessly fulfilled. To the non-specialist, his translations of the text extracts appear idiomatic and contemporary, but it is his enthusiasm for the great Irish writers that is communicated at every opportunity. For the modern reader, the early Gaelic writers will be unfamiliar, but Kiberd is adroit at conveying their special qualities. Nevertheless, we are on comfortable ground when we reach Jonathan Swift and Gulliver's Travels, and the author is able to deal intelligently with issues that remain paramount in any discussion of Irish writing, such as the necessity for exile, silence and cunning, exemplified in the brilliantly written chapter on Joyce and Ulysses. For those interested in the field, this book can open many new vistas.

Reseña del editor:

In this survey of enduring Irish classics, Declan Kiberd offers a discussion of the greatest work since 1600 in the two languages, Irish and English, that have shaped one of the world's literary cultures. Kiberd provides translations that seek to bring the texts alive for the English-speaking reader. He covers the bitter poetry of Seathrun Ceitinn and Dabhi O'Bruadair and the prose of Jonathan Swift and Edmund Burke; links the modern achievements of O'Riordain and O'Cadhain with Yeats, Joyce and the other familiar figures of Irish modernism; and shows how all of them draw on early Irish themes.

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• Verlag: Granta Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1862073864
• ISBN 13: 9781862073869
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704