Black Apples of Gower (Little Toller Monographs) [Idioma Ingl�s] - Hardcover

Sinclair, Iain

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9781908213280: Black Apples of Gower (Little Toller Monographs) [Idioma Ingl�s]

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ISBN 10: 1908213280 ISBN 13: 9781908213280

Verlag: Little Toller Books, 2015

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IAIN SINCLAIR walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower Peninsula, a place first explored in his youth. Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings, Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower), made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar, 'murky elsewheres' of his life in Hackney, carrying an envelope of black-and-white photographs and old postcards, along with fragments of memory that neither confirm nor deny whether he belongs here, amongst the wave-cut limestone, the car parks and the Gower bungalows.But digging and sifting, he soon recognises that a series of walks over the same ground - Port Eynon Point to Worm's Head - have become significant waymarks in his life, and his recollections of a meeting with the poet of place, Vernon Watkins, is an opening into the legends of the rocks and the mythology behind the Black Apples of Ceri Richards and the poems of Dylan Thomas.Under cliff, along limestone shores, Sinclair comes to realise that the defining quest must be to the Paviland Cave, where in 1823 the Reverend William Buckland found human bones put to ground 36,000 years ago. All the threads of this story lead underground, through this potent and still mysterious cavern, to the site of the first recorded ritual burial in these islands.. NOTA: El libro no est� en espa�ol, sino en ingl�s.

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An enigmatic series of paintings by Ceri Richards, based on the theme of the 'Black Apple of Gower', is the provocation for Iain Sinclair's return to the landscape of his childhood and youth. Digging into memory files, he recognises that a series of walks over the same ground, Port Eynon Point to Worm's Head, become bookmarks for the significant stages in his life. Recollections of a meeting with the poet of place, Vernon Watkins, focus attention on legends of the rocks. And on the mythology of the eternal return: the dead and the drowned as unfulfilled witnesses. Through expeditions over cliffs and elemental wave-cut pavements, Sinclair comes to realise that the defining quest is for access to the Paviland Cave, where the Rev. William Buckland 'discovered' the bones of the Red Lady. Who was no lady but a young man put to ground 36,000 years ago. The first recorded ritual burial in these islands. All the threads of the story knot within this potent and still mysterious cavern.

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