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In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.
Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, "If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two." Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The result is a passionate exploration of a triangle of contradictory relationships – between an island community still embedded in its ancestral ways but solicited by modernism, a physical environment of ascetic loveliness and savagely unpredictable moods, and Synge himself, formed by modern European thought but in love with the primitive.
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Tim Robinson (External Editor, Introducer)
A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands and commenced a multi-decade project of mapping and writing about Aran and Connemara. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and the Connemara trilogy, each published to great acclaim. He died in 2020.
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Condition: Bueno. : En 1907, J. M. Synge alcanzó notoriedad y fama duradera con 'The Playboy of the Western World'. 'The Aran Islands', publicado el mismo año, registra sus visitas a las islas entre 1898 y 1901, cuando recopilaba el folclore y las anécdotas con las que forjó 'The Playboy' y sus otros grandes dramas. Sin embargo, este libro es mucho más que una etapa en la evolución de Synge como dramaturgo. Como explica Tim Robinson en su introducción, 'Si Irlanda es intrigante por ser una isla al oeste de Europa, entonces Aran, como una isla al oeste de Irlanda, lo es aún más; es Irlanda elevada a la potencia de dos'. A finales del siglo pasado, los nacionalistas irlandeses llegaron a identificar la zona como el corazón incorrupto del país, el depósito de su antigua lengua, cultura y valores espirituales. Por estas razones, Yeats sugirió a Synge que visitara las islas para registrar su forma de vida. El resultado es una exploración apasionada de un triángulo de relaciones contradictorias: entre una comunidad isleña aún arraigada en sus costumbres ancestrales pero solicitada por el modernismo, un entorno físico de belleza ascética y estados de ánimo salvajemente impredecibles, y el propio Synge, formado por el pensamiento europeo moderno pero enamorado de lo primitivo. EAN: 9780140184327 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia|Literatura y Ficción Título: The Aran Islands Autor: J. M. Synge Editorial: Penguin Classics Idioma: en Páginas: 208 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-07-17-5ee4cf53
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