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Gwyn Thomas
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A small Welsh valley community come together to form a carnival
marching band in Gwyn Thomas' farcical exploration of the social,
economic and political turbulence abound in twentieth century
Wales.
A contemporary retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the earliest
Welsh manuscripts which date from the 13th century.
With passion, humour and remarkable insight Gwyn Thomas captures
the world of South Wales in the 1830s during the turbulent years of
the Merthyr and Newport Risings. As the newly-built foundries enter
their first decline, a travelling harpist from the rural north
arrives in one of the new towns to find his friends caught in a
fiercely-fought industrial dispute, a dispute which quickly spirals
out of control. A powerful and sweeping novel by one of Wales's
great literary figures, 'All Things Betray Thee', tells the epic
story of a people, their joys and victories, but also their sorrows
and defeats.
Sex, murder, and a devastating, humour mark these three novellas
that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, the narrator of death and
exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him.
InSimeon, the abuse of sexual and family power ends with violent
death, and in The Dark Philosophers itself, the grimly humorous
philosophers gather in an Italian café to tell the tragic tale of
revenge and manslaughter that they engineer.
Yn ei arweiniad bywiog i farddoniaeth a beirdd y Cymry hyd at
gyfnod beirdd yr uchelwyr, llwydda Gwyn Thomas i brofi bod
traddodiad o unrhyw werth yn beth byw a chreadigol. Ceir yn y llyfr
yma gyflwyniad i nodweddion barddoniaeth y cyfnodau gwahanol yn ein
traddodiad, i'r personoliaethau y tu ol i'r farddoniaeth ac i'r
cerddi eu hunain, wedi'u cyfieithu i Gymraeg cyfoes a bywiog. Dyma
un o'r llawlyfrau mwyaf defnyddiol ym maes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg ac
un sy'n cyfuno ysgolheictod o'r radd flaenaf ag arddull sionc ac
apelgar. Cyflwynir y deunydd mewn modd fydd yn apelio at bawb sy'n
ymddiddori mewn barddoniaeth Gymraeg ond eto bydd yn addas ar gyfer
myfyrwyr y traddodiad barddol.
First published in 1947, The Alone to the Alone unites Gwyn Thomas'
lyrical and philosophical flights of narrative in a satire whose
savagery is only relieved by irrepressible laughter. It is Gwyn
Thomas' most shaped work: the underlying meaning of South Wales'
history is not so much documented as laid bare for universal
dissection and dissemination. The novel, with its distinctive
plural narration, is a choric commentary on human illusion and
knowledge, on power and its attendant deprivation, on dreams and
their destruction. The Alone to the Alone is History as Carnival
and, in Gwyn Thomas' unique voice, a comic vision of humanity that
recognizes no geographical boundaries.
A collection of eight articles, lectures and essays on diverse
themes found in Welsh and Celtic literature from the Middle Ages to
the 20th century including individual chapters on the work of Sion
Cent, Daniel Owen and R. Williams Parry.
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