dedalus sep 2014 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Liffey Swim is the debut collection from Dubliner Jessica Traynor, whose family portraits combine with myth and history to create a strikingly assured and engaging suite of poems. Delivered in a language that is at once fresh and confident, these poems herald Traynor as a powerful new talent in Irish writing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent are men of the best society. One of the friends is a doctor, and the masked men say that they need him to assist a noblewoman, who is about to give birth. When they reach the house, they find no such noblewoman, only a dead man. Another man, known only as A.M.C., bursts in at this point and declares that the man died of opium poisoning. The doctor writes a letter to a newspaper editor, setting out the facts as he knows them. These facts are rebutted first by a friend of A.M.C. and then by the first masked man, who explains the whole story. Eça de Queiroz wrote this spoof 'mystery' with his friend Ramalho Ortiga£o, publishing it in the form of a series of anonymous letters in the Dia¡rio de Nota-cias between 24 July and 27 September 1870. Many readers believed the letters to be genuine. As the book progresses, one sees Eça gradually getting into his stride as a novelist, equally at home with humour and with human drama. Recently turned into a major Portuguese feature film it will delight avid Eça fans and lovers of mysteries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The protagonist, Father Llatzer, a priest banished for doctrinal heresy to an isolated, backward mountain parish, struggles to achieve personal redemption by bringing salvation to his primitive, taciturn, rural flock. Their mute atavism is disturbed only by the local whore, Footloose, embodying all the forces against which the priest's reforming mission is directed. Ambiguity surrounds the denouement of that conflict. Dark Vales is as as compelling today as when it was first written.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The poems of Kehoe's second collection are set in Barcelona, a city of slow time and reflection, of "crepuscular, pastel-tinted shrouds" but also of vitality and luminance. Kehoe's lucid, light-handed lyrics brilliantly illuminate a time and a place, like a full moon over the "beehive ways of the city." His is already a distinctive voice in Irish poetry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Borrowed Space celebrates twenty-one years of Irish poet Enda Wyley's poems. Filled with energy, imagination, and heart, Wyley's poems convey the quiet determination of a seasoned poet. She has twice been a winner in the British National Poetry Competition and was the inaugural recipient of the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.