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Chargement... Les Îles Aran (1907)par John Millington Synge
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. One of the more seminal works of early sociology, Singhe's generally nonjudgemental portrayal of Aran provides a glimpse into traditional Irish lives and ways. An excellent read for a hibernophile, or anyone interested in sociology or anthropology. ( ) In the late 1890s, the Irish playwright John Millington Synge spent several summers on the Aran Islands, a group of three islands off the west coast of Ireland. He later compiled his experiences into sort of a journal, which was published in 1907. The book depicts each of Synge's four visits to the islands, as he wanders around, gather local stories and songs, learns the history, and participates in island life. The Aran Islands are depicted as something of a backwater place-- but usually all the better for it. It's a rudimentary ethnography, sometimes a tedious and dull ramble, but occasionally a fascinating glimpse at a disappearing culture, even if it is somewhat over-idealized. Unclassifiable is “The Aran Islandsâ€? (1907) by J.M. Synge. William Butler Yeats persuaded Synge to live for a time in the Aran Islands (off the west coast of Ireland) in the hopes that it would focus his writing and help his creative work, such as play-writing. “The Aran Islandsâ€? is a short journal of Synge's conversations with the local people, but it is also a travelogue, diary of his learning Irish, and collection of local stories. The book documents of a way of life and the way of thinking of a people that are gone from the world now. Admittedly, this book has a couple of long spots, but overall it’s a magical thing. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas. Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, "If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two." Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The result is a passionate exploration of a triangle of contradictory relationships - between an island community still embedded in its ancestral ways but solicited by modernism, a physical environment of ascetic loveliness and savagely unpredictable moods, and Synge himself, formed by modern European thought but in love with the primitive. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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