Graveyard Clay: Cre na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters): Cré na Cille - Softcover

Ó Cadhain, Máirtín; Mac Con Iomaire, Liam; Robinson, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030022706X ISBN 13: 9780300227062

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 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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ASIN: 030022706X Product Name: Graveyard Clay: Cre na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Product ID: 9780300227062 Product ID Type: ean

Review:

"[This] translation . . . is remarkably elegant."--William Brennan, New Yorker
"A cause for celebration."--Jan Gardner, Boston Globe
"Whatever their differences in tempo or phraseology, each of the current versions of O Cadhain's most famous book is 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. . . . Those who wish to get as close to the original as possible will undoubtedly favor Graveyard Clay."--Mark Harman, Los Angeles Review of Books
"The bitingly sarcastic, and hilarious, drumbeat of dialogue . . . is counterpointed by lyrical sections . . . [A] great book."--Frank Freeman, University Bookman
"Likely to be praised by readers who are familiar with the original Irish text . . . [and] to encourage readers to seek out Cré na Cille in Irish."--Margaret Kelleher, Breac
"[This] raucously successful new translation . . . conveys the spirituous brio of Ó Cadhain's original . . . Graveyard Clay is an unforgettably disconcerting work."--Killian Quigley, MAKE Literary Magazine
Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson are winners of the Modern Language Association's tenth Lois Roth Award for translation of a literary work.
"A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, Graveyard Clay is true to the many different registers of Ó Cadhain's masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple."--Declan Kiberd
"This is a wonderful translation. Mac Con Ionmaire and Robinson provide a meticulously faithful rendering of Ó Cadhain's rich Conamara Irish while at the same time capturing the raucous, rabelaisian humor of his classic novel."--Philip O'Leary, Irish Studies Program, Boston College

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 030022706X
• ISBN 13: 9780300227062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368