A Guest at the Feast - Colm Tóibín

A Guest at the Feast

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2022
Viking (Verlag)
978-0-241-00463-0 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.

From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction.

The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self.

'Tóibín's voice is so powerful and distinct, his descriptions so precise, that a single thread does weave through each of these pieces and does not snap . . . perhaps Ireland's greatest living male writer' Sunday Times

'An unsurprisingly erudite, gracefully written unpicking of the world' Independent

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of ten novels, three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize, two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. His most recent novel, The Magician, was a top ten bestseller and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Award. In 2021 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 144 x 222 mm
Gewicht 437 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-241-00463-2 / 0241004632
ISBN-13 978-0-241-00463-0 / 9780241004630
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