Scattered Love (eBook)

Maylis Besserie (Autor)

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2023
184 Seiten
The Lilliput Press (Verlag)
978-1-84351-877-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'She entered the house like a shadow … She was like a divine elixir: one drop for each of my thoughts. … I could feel the breath of the warrior, the Queen of Ireland, and it intoxicated me with the wind of hope, like noble wine.'
She is Maud Gonne, the muse of writer William Butler Yeats. Yeats here returns as a ghost, having been buried in southern France in January 1939 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Ten years later his remains are repatriated to Ireland. He emerges from his grave to recount his thwarted love for Maud, a story blending with the movement for Irish independence in which they each played an integral part.
Yeats' ghost has suddenly appeared as diplomatic documents have come to light, casting doubt on the contents of the coffin brought back to Sligo for a state funeral. Where did the poet's body go? Does he still hover 'somewhere among the clouds above'? What remains of our loves and our deaths, if not their poetry?
Maylis Besserie's exciting new work follows on from Yell, Sam, If You Still Can (Le tiers temps). In her second novel, she turns her attention from Samuel Beckett to another Irish writer, W.B. Yeats. The connection between Ireland and France is forged once again in the smithy of art, culture and the days at the end of life.
A Guardian Most Anticipated Book of 2023
An Irish Times Most Anticipated Book of 2023
An Irish Independent Most Anticipated Book of 2023

Autor

Maylis Besserie was born in Bordeaux and now lives in Paris. She works as a producer for the radio channel France Culture. Besserie's connection with Ireland started when her family sent her to spend summers in Ireland to learn English. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can (Le Tiers Temps) was her first novel and won Le Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, 2020. Clíona Ní Ríordáin is Professor of English at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, where she teaches Irish literature and translation studies and convenes the Master's programme in Irish Studies. Her most recent book is English Language Poets in University College Cork 1970-1980 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2023
• Übersetzer: Clíona Ní Ríordáin
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Beckett • Ben Bulben • burial • cliona ni riordain • Clíona Ní Ríordáin • Drumcliff • End of Days • fiction in translation • France • Gallimard • ghost • Goncourt • investigation • Ireland • Irish Free State • irish independence • Irish Literature • irish poet • les amours dispersées • Le Tiers Temps • Life after Death • Lilliput • Lilliput Press • Maud Gonne • Maylis Besserie • NICE • Paris • Poet • Poetry • Prix Goncourt • Roquebrune-Cap-Martin • Samuel Beckett • Sligo • Translation • W. B. Yeats • William Butler Yeats • World War • Yeats • yell sam • yell sam if you still can
• ISBN-10: 1-84351-877-5 / 1843518775
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84351-877-8 / 9781843518778