Kitaba geçmeden önce biraz yazarından bahsetmek istiyorum çünkü bu ilginç İrlandalı yazar ülkemizde neredeyse hiç tanınmıyor. Arkadaşlarım arasında şimdiye dek bu yazarı okumuş birine de rastlamadım. Zaten ben de ilk defa okuyorum. Brian O’Nolan, ilk romanı “Ağaca Tüneyen Sweeny”yi (At Swim-Two-B...
Desde el lapidario primer párrafo, ’La vida dura’ de Flann O’Brien te atrapa. Esta vez el escritor irlandés se aleja de esas novelas con excéntricos inventores y demás detalles fantásticos (aunque O’Brien desliza en cierto momento un elemento de este tipo), como ocurría en ‘El Tercer Policía’ y ‘...
A good deal of this collection was beyond my comprehension -- being firmly rooted in a time and place that I have scant knowledge of. What can you expect of a book that consists of thirty years' work by a newspaper columnist (and novelist), however brilliant? However, even though the average rea...
The brother, five years older than myself, was first to be sent to school, being marched off early one morning by Mr Collopy to see the Superior of the Christian Brothers’ school at Westland Row. A person might think the occasion was one merely of formal introduction and enrolment, but when Mr Co...
Why were we called cubs? My dictionary, in its very rare attempts at cracking jokes, follows up the word CUB with this, in brackets: ‘(Etymology unknown)’. But that doesn’t matter. More wide-awake than myself, the other cub nudged me and said: ‘Better dowse that cigarette....
It is believed that these papers were wrapped around the lunch of a workman hundreds of years ago, when the walls of the library were first being constructed, and that they were sealed inside the wall by accident. This theory is confirmed by the stench of fish and chips on the paper. As regards t...
TADHG: It wouldn’t matter to me . . . (He stands still for a moment and stretches his arm.) I DON’T CARE only that it was me that taught you all the Irish you have! PEIG: (Sniggering.) You! You!! TADHG: (At the top of his voice.) Yeah, me! ME! PEIG: I suppose it was from you that I got my manners...