Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Look Back to Look Forward: Frank O'Connor's Complete Translations from the Irish

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Digte

While Frank O'Connor was known primarily as one of Ireland's finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English – a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift – he stands out above all the rest. Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s, O'Connor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of this centuries-old tradition. Collected here in full for the first time, O'Connor's work shows an uncanny aptitude for carrying over into English verse many of the riches to be found in the originals – the ancient voice of the Hag of Beare lamenting her decline into old age; the voices of the early monks describing the Irish landscape, Irish weather, their religious faith, and, in at least one instance, their cat; the voice of Hugh O'Rourke's wife torn between loyalty to her husband and a rising desire for her seducer. All these voices haunted O'Connor throughout his career, whatever else he was doing. The collection includes the Irish-language sources for all 121 translations along with literal translations, enabling the reader to see what O'Connor started from. O'Connor's translations sprang from a compulsive desire to breathe life into Ireland's past, to 'look back to look forward,' as he once put it; for him the Irish-language tradition was not for scholars and archives alone, but formed a living body of work vitally relevant to an Ireland that seemed puzzlingly indifferent to it. Thanks to O'Connor's profound love of his country's language and its rich, literary subsoil – 'a literature of which no Irishman need feel ashamed', he once said – these voices from Ireland's past can still be heard. Strikingly modern in tone, they conjoin flesh and spirit, the sacred and the secular, in a way that speaks to humankind.

© 2023 The Lilliput Press (E-bog): 9781843518808

Release date

E-bog: 13. april 2023

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Meditations in an Emergency Frank O Hara
  2. Essential Bukowski: Poetry Charles Bukowski
  3. Love is a Dog From Hell Charles Bukowski
  4. Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank Mary Alice Monroe
  5. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
  6. The World As Will and Idea Schopenhauer
  7. Beyond Good and Evil Friederich Nietzsche
  8. Inferno - Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri
  9. The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays James Wood
  11. The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien
  12. Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza Gilles Deleuze
  13. Missy: an Autobiography Missy Wood
  14. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
  15. Jung Anthony Stevens
  16. Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun
  17. The Lady of the Camellias Alexandre Dumas
  18. The Summer Girls Mary Alice Monroe
  19. Johann's Awakening: A Seagull's Story of Enlightenment Arthur Telling
  20. A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Suze Rotolo
  21. The Torrents of Spring Ernest Hemingway
  22. Trout Fishing in America: A Novel Richard Brautigan
  23. The Art of Controversy Arthur Schopenhauer
  24. Being and Time Martin Heidegger
  25. Artificial Intelligence in Education Introbooks Team
  26. Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 Albert Camus
  27. Family Lexicon Natalia Ginzburg
  28. Big Sur Jack Kerouac
  29. Praying with Bach Johann Sebastian Bach
  30. Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
  31. The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Guy Laron
  32. Metaphysics Aristotle
  33. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande - Book Summary: Medicine and What Matters in the End Dean Bokhari
  34. Inadvertent Karl Ove Knausgaard
  35. The Plague "International Edition" Albert Camus
  36. The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
  37. Junky: The Definitive Text of 'Junk' William S. Burroughs
  38. The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  39. The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
  40. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers Will Durant
  41. History of Israel – Palestine Conflict Introbooks Team
  42. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  43. No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
  44. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolaño
  45. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
  46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel Milan Kundera

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis