Iain Crichton Smith

After the Dance (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith
Redaktion: Warner, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The range and variety of his work, and the naturalness of his best pieces, will always attract and please. If he has anger, he also has compassion, and he opens our ears to "the unpredicted voices of our kind"'

Edwin Morgan

Iain Crichton Smith was one of Scotland's most prolific writers - from short stories, novels, radio and stage plays to critical essays and volumes of poetry. A reticent man who was addicted to detective fiction and doing crosswords, he was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in Stornoway he learned English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages, two histories. His divided perspective delineated the tyranny and dogma of religion, the cramped life of small communities and gave him a compassionate eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials.

After the Dance confirms that big themes - love, history, power, submission, death - can be addressed without the foil of irony and acquire resonance when given a local habitation and a voice that risks pure, humane, impassioned speech.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polygon
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857903235
• Artikelnr.: 49160899

Autorenporträt

Iain Crichton Smith (1928 - 1998) was born in Glasgow, brought up on Lewis, and attended university in Aberdeen. After working as a teacher in Clydebank and Dumbarton, he taught at the High School in Oban until he took early retirement in 1977. He was the recipient of many literary awards and received an OBE in 1980. His widow, Donalda, still lives in Taynuilt, where the couple moved after their marriage in 1977.