The Dark - Couverture souple

McGahern, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815638612 ISBN 13 : 9780815638612

Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Bringing John McGahern’s 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern’s own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While the text was initially banned in Ireland for obscenity, this edition demonstrates that McGahern’s novel of adolescence is not obscene, but revelatory, exposing the corruption underlying authority structures in mid-century Ireland—from the family to the church, to the government’s willingness to ignore national and communal trauma. The Dark follows a promising young boy’s struggles to break free from the economic and social forces trapping him in a lifestyle that is both familiar and suffocating. At the heart of the novel is the boy’s complex and stormy relationship with his abusive, widowed father, who is left to raise a family with little outside aid. The Dark is a story of alarming brutality, surprising tenderness, and poetic lyricism; a reflection of Irish society that maintains historical significance as contemporary Ireland continues to build its national identity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Teekell is associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University.

Ellen Scheible is professor of English and director of the honors program at Bridgewater State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815638612
• ISBN 13: 9780815638612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Éditeur: Teekell Anna, Scheible Ellen
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