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Graveyard Clay: Cré Na Cille

Graveyard Clay: Cré Na Cille

Mac Con Iomaire, Liam
O. Cadhain, Mairtin
Robinson, Tim

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 030022706X
ISBN13: 9780300227062
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Mar 14 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 4.60 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A brilliant new translation of Ó 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, Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically original Cré na Cille is the shared project of two fluent speakers of the Irish of Ó Cadhain's native region, Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. They have achieved a lofty goal: to convey Ó 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 Ó 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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