The dirty dust : Cré na Cille / Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Cadhain, Máirtín, author.

Contributor:

Titley, Alan.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book.

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--Fiction.

Cemeteries.

Irish fiction--20th century.

Irish fiction.

Ireland--Fiction.

Ireland.

Connemara (Ireland)--Fiction.

Connemara (Ireland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 308 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator's Introduction

List of Characters and Dialogue Conventions

The Dirty Dust

Interlude 1. THE BLACK EARTH

Interlude 2. THE SCATTERED EARTH

Interlude 3. THE SUCKING EARTH

Interlude 4. THE GRINDING EARTH

Interlude 5. THE MUCK MANURING EARTH

Interlude 6. THE MANGLING EARTH

Interlude 7. THE MOULDING EARTH

Interlude 8. THE HEATING EARTH

Interlude 9. THE WASTING EARTH

Interlude 10. THE GOOD EARTH

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780300213591

0-300-21359-X

OCLC:

904281381