The Selected Writings of JACK B. YEATS.

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It may come as a surprise to some that Jack B. Yeats,indisputably Ireland's greatest painter,was also one of the country's most original writers,much admired by both James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.For ironically,he stood in his own light,the long shadow he cast as a painter obscuring the writings.
His early output included melodramatic plays for children to be performed in toy theatres and vivid anecdotal essays for the Manchester Guardian.He wrote a number of plays,which were stage in the Abbey Theatre.His most astonishing work,however,may be found in his novels which combine rich fantasy and philosophical humour and a thoroughgoing celebration of the joys and pleasures of the common man.They are exuberant,comic,nostalgic and touching.Inspired by an early and lasting love of Baron Muchhausen,he is,one might say,a giant among liars,and therefore something of a poet.For, as his brother W.B. Yeats pointed out,'Poets must be good liars.'
The way of life he describes in his accounts of small towns and loquacious people,is one that is enormously attractive in its innocence and affection.Affection is perhaps a key word here.Jack Yeats writes with affection,and even his most satirical passages (and there is a touch of Swift in some of these) are filled with a curiosity about and love of his fellow human creatures. With this anthology,Deutsch has the privilege of reintroducing a great master too long out of print with a representative selection of his writings,including the complete script of his play 'In Sand'.It is an accident of history alone that Jack B. Yeats the writer is only now beginning to receive the general recognition he so richly deserves. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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