1993, ISBN: 9781874597445

This novella by one of Ireland's contemporary masters is a witty and playful critique of modern IrelandIn 1993, William Butler Yeats wrote about the young Francis Stuart's second book tha… Mehr…

This novella by one of Ireland's contemporary masters is a witty and playful critique of modern IrelandIn 1993, William Butler Yeats wrote about the young Francis Stuart's second book that it was "more personally and beautifully written than any book of our generation", and added a very prophetic line: "If luck comes to his aid he will be our great writer". Born in 1902, and still writing, Stuart has just received the highest honor Ireland can give its creative artists -- being elected by President Mary Robinson to the office of Saoi in Aosdana, the select affiliation of Irish artists which never numbers more than 200. But there was little luck about it.Stuart has also been one of Ireland's most controversial artists, a modern novelist of ideas more akin to the European models of Camus or Koestler. Branded a fascist maverick because he left Ireland to teach at the University of Berlin during World War II and due to his ambivalent political associations with Nazi Germany, his books were banned until Victor Gollancz began publishing him again in the 1940s. It is only now that Stuart's career as a writer is beginning to get the recognition it deserves, as his more than thirty novels are gradually reprinted and find new readers. Frank Kermode called him "exceptional...to put it mildly a writer of originality...often funny as well as shocking", and Victoria Glendinning called Stuart a "powerful and interesting writer...because he writes passionately".Now, at the age of ninety-four, Stuart has written a new novella. Purporting to be the diary of the Irish-Hungarian archaeologist, Lodsi Dormondi, King David Dances is both a self-survival manual and instructional booklet for thecosmos. Opening with the miraculous discovery of the Ark of the Covenant in modern-day Judea, these witty dispatches constitute a droll commentary on the miracle of life itself: an off-beat look at everything from horse-racing and Heidegger to the tyranny of consensus and corn flakes. Provocative, playful, and compassionate, this remarkable new work is evidence of the extraordinary talent and invincible spirit of one of Ireland's most important writers of this century. Media > Book<

1997, ISBN: 9781874597445

New Island Books, Paperback, 61 Seiten, Publiziert: 1997-10-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.1 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3440248, Fiction, Subjects, Books, New Island Books, 1997