A Ghost in the Throat
詩人でありエッセイストでもある作者が、亡きアイルランドの女性詩人と母性の記憶を重ねる回想的作品。
作品情報
Doireann Ní Ghríofa は、Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill の詩と自分自身の身体・出産・家庭生活を結びつける。歴史上の女性の声を掘り起こしながら、自身の現在を見つめる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Biblioasis
- 発売日
- 2021-06-01
- ページ数
- 326ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.7 x 2.29 x 19.56 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781771964111
- ISBN-10
- 1771964111
- 価格
- 3436 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Specific Groups/Women
An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Guardian Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title • Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize • A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 • A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 • An NPR Best Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 • An Entropy Magazine Best of the Year When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. On discovering her murdered husband’s body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlín Dubh’s life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet’s girlhood and old age; her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires; the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest. What follows is an adventure in which Doireann Ní Ghríofa sets out to discover Eibhlín Dubh’s erased life—and in doing so, discovers her own. Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another’s.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. In addition to A Ghost in the Throat , she is author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Awards for her writing include a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Ostana Prize, a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
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Amazing story
Beautiful writing. The transition of scenes are so smooth and gentle, I could not put the book down.
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Our narrative, poetic and objective worlds connect
Doireann abducts the unsuspecting spirit imbibing her majestic, poetic prose to the sweet timelessness of Kairos. In one fell breathless swoop she opens up dual worlds of her own authored life and that of a a female chimera lost in the mists of time, whose legacy is a keening that still etches the current soul. Her gift left me moved, astonished, aching for more. Highly recommended!
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Highly recommended
Like many Irish people I grew up paying little attention to the Lament for Art O'Leary. This remarkable book presents the lament in a fascinating context. As the reader comes to know Eibhlin Dubh he/she comes to know the author also. This is a female text which has much to say to males.
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Remarkable
Thoroughly researched and informational about irish landscape culture and traditions. It shows important advances in female texts. I would appreciate a guide to Irish pronunciation since the spelling and orthography seems to be made to confuse English readers
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Un de mes préférés de mes lectures de 2024
Un livre incroyable (en anglais) qui aborde avec intelligence et style l'histoire typique des auteurs femmes, et de ce que résulte l'obsession chez certaines lectrices qui se reconnaissent dans leur récit (vécu) pour le meilleur et pour le pire, mais acides de faire sortir un travail méconnu de l'ombre. Un beau livre sur l'histoire, l'écriture et ses implications, les modes d'expression féminins et les expériences qui nous sont communes. A Ghost in the Throat est un beau livre féministe, mais aussi un bel hommage à la quête de savoir dans laquelle il est toujours possible de se perdre et à la littérature irlandaise. À mettre dans toutes les mains des amoureux de la littérature et de la recherche.