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Graveyard Clay - Cre na Cille (Paperback)
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Graveyard Clay - Cre na Cille (Paperback)
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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Loot Price R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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A brilliant new translation of O Cadhain's modern Irish literature
masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan
Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history,
reception, interpretations, adaptations, and more "Gloriously
attuned to the energy, copiousness, invective and ribaldry of the
original Cre na Cille."-Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
"Corrosively satirical and darkly comic. . . . A tour de force of a
gabfest."-Mark Harman, Los Angeles Review of Books In critical
opinion and popular polls, Mairtin O Cadhain's Graveyard Clay is
invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish.
This bold new translation of his radically original Cre na Cille is
the shared project of two fluent speakers of the Irish of O
Cadhain's native region, Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson.
They have achieved a lofty goal: to convey O Cadhain's meaning
accurately and to meet his towering literary standards. Graveyard
Clay is a novel of black humor, reminiscent of the work of Synge
and Beckett. The story unfolds entirely in dialogue as the newly
dead arrive in the graveyard, bringing news of recent local
happenings to those already confined in their coffins. Avalanches
of gossip, backbiting, flirting, feuds, and scandal-mongering
ensue, while the absurdity of human nature becomes ever clearer.
This edition of O Cadhain's masterpiece is enriched with footnotes,
bibliography, publication and reception history, and other
materials that invite further study and deeper enjoyment of his
most engaging and challenging work.
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