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Ce genre de petites choses

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 76

En cette fin d'année 1985 à New Ross, Bill Furlong, le marchand de bois et charbon, a fort à faire. Aujourd'hui à la tête de sa petite entreprise et père de famille, il a tracé seul sa route : élevé dans la maison où sa mère, enceinte à quinze ans, était domestique, il a eu plus de chance que d'autres enfants nés sans père. Trois jours avant Noël, il va livrer le couvent voisin. Le bruit court que les sœurs du Bon Pasteur y exploitent à des travaux de blanchisserie des filles non mariées et qu’elles gagnent beaucoup d’argent en plaçant à l’étranger leurs enfants illégitimes. Même s’il n’est pas homme à accorder de l’importance à la rumeur, Furlong se souvient d’une rencontre fortuite lors d’un précédent passage : en poussant une porte, il avait découvert des pensionnaires vêtues d’horribles uniformes, qui ciraient pieds nus le plancher. Troublé, il avait raconté la scène à son épouse, Eileen, qui sèchement lui avait répondu que de telles choses ne les concernaient pas. Un avis qu’il a bien du mal à suivre par ce froid matin de décembre, lorsqu’il reconnaît, dans la forme recroquevillée et grelottante au fond de la...

À travers les champs bleus

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 207

Récidivant dans l'art délicat du clair-obscur, Claire Keegan raconte huit destins sur le fil. Solitudes, joug des traditions, amours impossibles ou interdites, rivalités, adieux... Autant d'instants sur le point de basculer et de personnages aux prises avec leurs propres failles, au coeur d'une nature sauvage et silencieuse où chaque éclat de vie, saisie sur le vif, entre en résonance.

Antarctica

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 159

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. ------- Readers love Antarctica: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!' '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'

Small Things Like These

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 87

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS 'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut 'Masterly.' The Times 'Miraculous.' Herald 'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín 'Stunning.' Sunday Independent 'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. Claire Keegan's book Small Things Like These was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 05-11-2022 ----- Readers love Small Things Like These: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'G ripping and very moving and thought-provoking ... brilliantly done, but also softly and slowly. You'll never regret reading this book, but it will haunt you for ever after.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I haven't loved a book for so long. This has changed it. Every...

Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction

Autor: Paul Delaney

Número de Páginas: 171

This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland, analysing the production, dissemination, and reception of the short form in the twenty-first century, and reading contemporary short stories in their many configurations and guises. This volume covers twenty-five years of Irish writing, beginning in late 1997 with the establishment of the innovative literary periodical The Stinging Fly, and concludes in 2022. The book is structured in five parts, with each part focusing on a particular mode of publication: periodicals, single-author volumes, short-story cycles, edited anthologies, and small or independent presses. Each part includes a series of case studies while also engaging with a diverse range of short-story criticism and theory, both comparative and Irish-centered. Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction brings different writers at distinct stages of their careers into conversation, and This volume aims to illuminate the contemporaneous value of this body of work, its innovative and varied use, and the diversity of its practice. Particular attention is also shown to the fluidity of the short form, to its capacity to disrupt and arrest, and to...

Walk the Blue Fields

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 180

Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer. A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland’s greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the...

Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story

Autor: Elke D'hoker

Número de Páginas: 237

This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overall development of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.

L'Antarctique

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 215

Dans l'authenticité d'une Irlande rurale, chaque nouvelle déchire le voile d'une existence renversée, d'un destin brisé ou reconquis. Face aux drames dissimulés sous les gestes du quotidien, les êtres de Claire Keegan vacillent : une seconde les fera basculer vers l'ombre ou la lumière.

The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Autor: Madalina Armie

Número de Páginas: 233

In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the Republic occupied one of the top positions among the world’s economic powers. During the boom, dissident voices continuously criticised what they considered to be a mirage, identifying the precariousness of its structures and foretelling its eventual crash. The 2008 recession proved them right. Throughout this time, the Irish contemporary short story expressed distrust. Enabled by its capacity to reflect change with immediacy and dexterity, the short story saw through the smokescreen created by the Celtic Tiger discourse of well-being. It reinterpreted and captured the worst and the best of the country and became a bridge connecting tradition and modernity. The major objective of this book is to analyse the interactions between fiction and reality during this period in Ireland by studying the short stories written by old and emergent voices published between the birth of the Celtic Tiger in 1995 up to its immediate aftermath in 2013.

Foster

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 98

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers . AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE DAVY BYRNES IRISH WRITING AWARD 'A real jewel.' Irish Independent 'A small miracle.' Sunday Times 'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian 'As good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is. -------- Readers love Foster: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'To say this story is exceptional doesn't adequately describe it. If there were 10 stars to award this would deserve every one. Claire Keegan has a wonderful talent at storytelling.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Foster is beautifully and confidently written, the prose is evocative, poignant and moving, with wonderfully atmospheric imagery ... Claire Keegan is an incredible storyteller.' ...

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020

Autor: Deirdre Flynn , Ciara L. Murphy

Número de Páginas: 222

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented in Irish women’s writing during critical junctures in recent Irish history. Through an investigation of cultural production north and south of the border, this collection analyses women’s writing using a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, and conflict; arts and austerity; race and austerity; and spaces of austerity. This collection asks two questions: what sort of cultural output does austerity produce? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, then what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both national and domestic? By investigating how austerity is treated in women’s writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and specifically of Ireland’s consistent relationship with...

The Female and the Species

Autor: Maureen O'connor

Número de Páginas: 210

Describing the Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other 'savages' has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has been asserted in recent decades by some feminists, but linking women's rights with animal advocacy can be controversial. This strategy responds to the fact that women's inferiority has been alleged and justified by appropriating them to nature, an appropriation that colonialism has also practiced on its racial and cultural others. Nineteenth-century feminists braved such associations, for instance, often asserting vegetarianism as a form of rebellion against the dominant culture. Vegetarianism and animal advocacy have uniquely Irish implications. This study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying the 'natural' as a gesture of resistance to paternalist regulation of female energies and as a self-consciously elaborated stage for the performance of Irish identity. They call into question the violent dislocations and disavowals required by figurative practices, particularly when utilizing Irish topography,...

Écrivaines irlandaises ∙ Irish Women Writers

Autor: Bertrand Cardin , Sylvie Mikowski

Número de Páginas: 301

Des textes de toute nature, produits par des femmes irlandaises, sont étudiés ici. Le présent volume a pour objectifs de mettre l’accent sur la multiplicité des pratiques et de s’interroger sur les rapports qu’entretiennent les écrivaines avec leur identité féminine, ...

Bien tarde en el día

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 40

Un cajón exclusivo en el armario. La copia de una llave. Un te amo dicho a tiempo. Un mensaje agradeciendo una cena. Gestos de amor y muestras de interés que construyen los cimientos de cualquier pareja. Aunque muchas veces todo esto queda relegado por un muro que no puede atravesarse. El egoísmo, el hastío, la pereza e incluso el maltrato se entrometen en la relación y el desenlace final se vuelve inevitable, si es que antes no clausuraron la posibilidad de un verdadero comienzo. Claire Keegan observa y escribe con la sensibilidad justa para convertir la típica historia de amor en un relato tan conmovedor como atrapante, y avanza sobre zonas incómodas de la intimidad de una pareja como la falta de generosidad o incluso el desamor. Bien tarde en el día confirma la agudeza de su estilo y se vuelve un reflejo de la imposibilidad del amor en los tiempos que corren, aunque también una vía de escape. En pocas palabras, Claire Keegan es una de las mejores escritoras de ficción del mundo. George Saunders

Tres luces

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 67

En la Irlanda rural de principios de los ochenta, una niña es llevada a casa de unos parientes a pasar una temporada, hasta que su madre haya dado a luz al último de sus hermanitos. En casa de los Kinsella todo contrasta con su hogar: hay baño y no letrina, una máquina blanca a la que llaman freezer, e insisten en que allí no hay secretos. Pero ella no solo descubrirá uno, sino también que el dolor puede convertirse en ternura. Un libro sublime y sugerente sobre la cambiante línea entre el secreto y la vergüenza, sobre ese intersticio entre lo que debe ser dicho y lo que debe callarse. "Tres luces exhibe un despliegue imponente de belleza formal al servicio de un profundo talento...". RICHARD FORD

The Short Stories of Claire Keegan

Autor: Michelle P. Maher

Número de Páginas: 61

6. Internationales Literaturfestival, Berlin

Autor: Hanno Depner

Número de Páginas: 248

Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin

Número de Páginas: 244

So Late in the Day

Autor: Claire Keegan

Número de Páginas: 51

From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, a n exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away. AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibín After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed. From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women. Claire Keegan's book So Late in the Day was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 02-09-2023 -------- Readers love So Late in the Day: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' You'll finish this novella in one sitting, but you will be ...

Accords suspendus

Autor: Helen Garner

Número de Páginas: 105

Une vie tranquille dans la banlieue de Melbourne, cela semble convenir à Athena et Dexter Fox. Ils sont heureux, s’occupent de leurs deux jeunes garçons, et de temps en temps, Athena joue du Bach sur le piano de la cuisine. Mais un jour, Dexter croise Elizabeth, une vieille amie du temps de ses études, et l’invite à la maison. Avec elle, ce sont aussi sa sœur Vicki et son amant Philip qui entrent dans l’existence de la famille Fox, leur montrant l’exemple d’une vie plus libre, plus bohème. Et le monde en apparence si solide d’Athena et de Dexter commence alors à se fissurer... Rarement roman n’aura interrogé avec autant d’acuité les liens du mariage, et l’éternel conflit entre nos rêves et la routine du quotidien. Dans une prose subtile, elle-même comme suspendue, Helen Garner nous offre un texte intemporel appelé à devenir un classique sur le couple. « Il est grand temps que les lecteurs connaissent l’imagination généreuse de Helen Garner, qui défie toutes les catégories. » New York Times « Accords suspendus est le chef-d’oeuvre de Helen Garner. » Public Books « Un bijou de roman sur une famille en train d’imploser. » David...