Divadelní hra Virginia je vnímavou evokací roztěkaného emocionálního života anglické spisovatelky Virginie Woolfové, jejího pevného svazku s manželem Leonardem i vztahu s Vitou Sackville-Westovou. Bilingvní, anglicko-české vydání.
Milostný příběh naivního, venkovského irského děvčete a staršího, zkušenějšího a vzdělanějšího muže z města, který ústí v mužovu desiluzi, dívčinu větší oddanost a konečně rozchod obou. Román, který přinesla mladé irské autorce plné uznání literární kritiky, byl i s úspěchem zfilmován.
I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.'James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting. Therefore I decided to depict him as seen by the key figures in his life - Mother, Wife, Mistress of a fleeting moment, his patron Harriet Weaver and his beloved Daughter Lucia, of whom he said her mind was but a transparent leaf away from his.'Written to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses , Joyce's Women premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2022.
The nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's life.
The eight short stories of this collection have a dual theme: Ireland - its people, its personality - and woman - woman betrayed, or sacrificed, innocence involuntarily lost, happiness stolen or mislaid..
One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce.
"Mother Ireland" includes seven essays seamlessly woven into an autobiographical tapestry. In her lyrical, sensuous voice, O'Brien describes growing up in rural County Clare, from her days in a convent school to her first kiss to her eventual migration to England. Weaving her own personal history with the history of Ireland, she effortlessly melds local customs and ancient lore with the fascinating people and events that shaped he young life. The result is a colorful and timeless narrative that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this harshly beautiful country.
"This omnibus edition, with a new epilogue by the author, was originally published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The country girls trilogy and epilogue."--Title page verso.
Timothy would like to go to sleep at bedtime but everything keeps talking and the noise keeps him awake. The basin talked to the pitcher, while the Statue of the Infant told everyone of Timothy's secrets. The mop and the curtains had something to say and the General in the picture frame kept shouting commands. Then one night the roof began leaking right over his bed, and Timothy had to move to the box room until it could be fixed. He was worried! The first night, after Timothy had been tucked in bed, he was awakened by a little mouse who shared a wonderful surprise.
As one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World,' this iconic trilogy vividly portrays the lives of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionized Irish literature in the 1960s, facing bans and censorship due to their candid exploration of sexual desire. This notoriety quickly transformed into fame, establishing the series as a bestseller and classic. Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan grow up in a repressive Irish village post-World War II. Kate is a romantic in search of love, while Baba embodies a reckless survivor. Expelled from convent school, they aspire to the bright lights of Dublin, only to encounter disappointment, bad luck, and misguided relationships. They marry and betray for the wrong reasons, all while challenging the societal expectations imposed on young women. Published in an omnibus edition with a new foreword by Eimear McBride, O'Brien's poignant exploration of innocence, love, despair, and resilience continues to resonate with readers, showcasing her bravery, lyricism, and humor. Edna O'Brien's latest novel, Girl, is set to be released by Faber in September 2019 and is available for pre-order.
A controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic church in Ireland from one of the country's most celebrated writers.
A portrait of the relationship between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores. Wistful, wanton, this erotic reverie shows O'Brien to be one of the foremost heirs to modernism. "Very few writers use language as richly and sensuously . . . There are passages here worthy of Joyce" (Library Journal).
Willa had loved, Had been mangled by love, Wrung dry enought to crack. Her desperation mirrored in the World of glass she built to fileter out the threat of feeling, With Tom and Patsy, to secure a kind of Peace.
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.
A collection of remarkable short stories by one of the twentieth century’s most acclaimed and prolific authors In this collection of eight stories, Edna O’Brien writes lyrically and passionately about women’s lives. In “Irish Revel,” young Mary yearns for the promise of a sweetheart to hold on to, as a hard life stretches out before her. In “The Rug,” a woman becomes consumed with her search for the sender of a mysterious gift. And in the title story, “The Love Object,” a successful television announcer struggles for emotional fulfillment through an affair with a married man. In each story, the objects of each woman’s affections vary, but all are masterfully bound together by their love and longing. At once heartrending and captivating, The Love Object is an unforgettable exploration of isolation and romantic obsession.
The New York Times Book Review hailed The Country Girls, the first book in Edna O'Brien's critically acclaimed trilogy, as "Powerful. Intelligent. Ironic. A treasure."The Lonely Girl continues the story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both twenty-one, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big as Dublin, and hopes as bright as new pennies, they move bravely and eagerly toward the future. Yet the two couldn't be more different. Kate toils in a grocery shop and lives out her romantic fantasies in books. Baba entertains more earthbound dreams. Their principles—and friendship—are tested when Kate meets a dashing married man, and discovers the exhilaration of passion...and the consequences of falling in love.A novel that combines the teeming ethos of big-city life with the ambitions and yearnings of two emerging young women, The Lonely Girl is a stellar achievement from one of Ireland's finest storytellers.
In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life. With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna O'Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. Elsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friends--the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston--at the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writer's historical situation, Shop Talk is a literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by America's foremost novelist.
The heart-breaking dilemmas and the noble and bloody history of Ireland come vividly to life in the tale of Josie, a widow living in a solitary house outside an Irish village, whose home becomes the hideout of an IRA terrorist.Historical fiction based on the life of IRA terrorist Dominic McGlinchy, who the author interviewed at Portlaoise Prison.
A Selection
O'Brien, Edna. Some Irish Loving. A Selection. First Penguin edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1981. 11 cm x 18 cm. 252, (4) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Contains among others the following The Preamble; The Fantastic; The Profane; The Desperate; The Male; The Female; The Intemperate etc.
A collection in which, a woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; and a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find they leave disappointed.
Set in a Spanish seaside enclave this is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival. The author also wrote "The Country Girl's Trilogy", "August is a Wicked Month" and "Johnny I Hardly Knew You".
"O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." - NewsweekIn The Light of Evening, Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life'a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood.
Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph
"In the Forest centres on unwitting victims for sacrifice: a radiant young woman, her young son and a trusting priest, all despatched to the wilderness of a young man's unbridled, deranged fantasies. Edna O'Brien's riveting, frightening and brilliantly told new novel reminds us that anything can happen when protection isn't afforded to either perpetrator or victim..." -back cover.
The third volume of Edna O'Brien's classic Country Girls Trilogy.
In a diary-like stream of image, impression, expression and experience, this book catalogues the mundane agony of the poor Irish child confronted at every turn with abundant opportunities for a sensational, scandalous and steadfast descent into eternal fire and damnation.
This novel tells the story of two Irish girls, Caithleen Brady and Bridget Brennan, and their escape from a life filled with countryside and convent to the allure and the crowds, lights and noise of Dublin.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the Year When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences. The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019. Her stunning new novel Girl will be published by Faber in September 2019, available to pre-order now.
This collection looks at the years of innocence, the pains and pleasures of schooldays and the struggles of adolescence in stories by such writers as Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle, Flann O'Brien, William Trevor, Bryan MacMahon, Samuel Beckett, Neil Jordan, Sean O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien, Brian Friel, Maeve Binchy, Brendan Behan and many more.
Ein Dorf im mittleren Westen Irlands. Die hübsche Breege erwartet eine Zukunft auf dem elterlichen Hof mit ihrem Bruder, bis ein Fremder, Michael Bugler, ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Bugler, Nachfahre verarmter Iren, kehrt zurück, um sein Erbe anzutreten und ein neues Leben zu beginnen. In Breege findet er eine unerwartete Zuneigung, die jedoch unter einem schlechten Stern steht. Bugler verfolgt nicht nur seine romantischen Ambitionen, sondern auch seine Erbansprüche, was das fragile Gleichgewicht im Dorf gefährdet. Er ignoriert die Auswirkungen seines Handelns auf die Dorfgemeinschaft und insbesondere auf Joseph Brennan, Breeges Bruder, der Buglers Land für seine Viehzucht nutzt. Als Joseph befürchtet, auch seine Schwester an Bugler zu verlieren, eskaliert der Konflikt in unversöhnlichen Hass. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich mit der Unausweichlichkeit einer griechischen Tragödie. Edna O’Brien zieht den Leser mit ihrer melodiösen, bildhaften Sprache von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite in ihren Bann.
Die Geschichte einer Frau, die ihrem Mann aus der irischen Provinz nach England folgt. Nach dem brutalen Scheitern der Partnerschaft kämpft sie um das Sorgerecht für ihre beiden Söhne, die sich jedoch bald von ihrer Mutter distanzieren ..
A collection of stories about physical and emotional comings and goings, and many set in Ireland.
Verhalen van binnen- en buitenlandse schrijvers over Ierland.
De lotgevallen van twee Ierse meisjes in hun jeugd, op de nonnenkostschool en in hun huwelijken. Inclusief epiloog.
In einer kalten, dunklen Nacht taucht in Cloonoila an der irischen Westküste ein Fremder auf und bringt Unruhe ins eingeschlafene Dorfleben. »Ein bisschen Romantik« erhoffen sich die einen, »Skandal« wittern die anderen. Denn Dr. Vladimir Dragan, kurz Vuk: »Wolf«, aus Montenegro will sich als Heiler und Sexualtherapeut bei ihnen niederlassen. Priesterliche Bedenken gegen seine Behandlungen zerstreut der Doktor im Nu, einen misstrauischen Polizisten wickelt er um den Finger. Der ganze Ort erliegt nach und nach dem Charisma des mysteriösen Fremden, der martialische Gedichte schreibt, lateinische Verse rezitiert und vor allem bei den Frauen scheinbar Wunder bewirkt. Die schöne, mit einem viel älteren Mann verheiratete Fidelma hat ihn sogar als Vater des Kindes auserwählt, nach dem sie sich so verzweifelt sehnt. Doch Vuk ist wirklich ein Wolf unter Schafen, ein gesuchter Kriegsverbrecher, und Fidelma wird für ihren Pakt mit ihm bitter bezahlen. Ihr Leben nimmt eine dramatische Wendung.
"Er sagte nichts als meinen Namen. Er sagte: 'Martha!', und schon spürte ich wieder, wie es passierte. Meine Beine unter der großen weißen Tischdecke begannen zu zittern, und im Kopf wurde mir ganz wirr, obwohl ich nicht beschwipst war. So ergeht's mir immer, wenn ich mich verliebe."
