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The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
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by � Cadhain, M�irt�n


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The original English-language translation of Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cr na Cille, which Colm Tibn has called the "greatest novel to be written in the Irish language" "An audacious novel rendered entirely in dialogue . . . [with] hilarious quarrels and devastating put-downs that reflect O'Cadhain's finely attuned ear for the nimble language of his people. He does not judge their time-wasting pettiness, so much as he celebrates the flaws that make us so tragically, wonderfully, human."--Dan Barry, New York Times Book Review Mirtn 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 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, 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, Cadhain remains keenly attuned to the absurdity of human behavior, the lilt of Irish gab, and the nasty, deceptive magic of human connection. Also available from Yale University Press: Graveyard Clay, an annotated edition of Cr na Cille translated by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson

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  • Title The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
  • Author � Cadhain, M�irt�n
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 328
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date 2016-03
  • ISBN 9780300219821

About the author

Mirtn Cadhain (1906-1970) is considered one of the most significant writers in the Irish language. Alan Titley, a novelist, story writer, playwright, and scholar, writes a weekly column for The Irish Times on current and cultural matters.
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