The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
ISBN-13:
9780300219821
ISBN-10:
0300219822
Author:
Mairtin O Cadhain
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Paperback
336 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780300219821
ISBN-10:
0300219822
Author:
Mairtin O Cadhain
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Paperback
336 pages
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The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (ISBN-13: 9780300219821 and ISBN-10: 0300219822), written by authors
Mairtin O Cadhain, was published by Yale University Press in 2016.
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Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of Ó Cadhain’s raucous masterpiece
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.
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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