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What the Curlew Said
John Moriarty
其他書名
Nostos Continued
出版Lilliput Press, 2007
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
ISBN184351124X9781843511243
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nQ_XAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This autobiography, a sequel to Nostos, concludes the story of John Moriarty's life in Connemara during the 1980s and subsequent return to his native Kerry. He writes with compelling detail about his time at Roundstone and environs, restoring gardens at Leitirdyfe House and Lisnabrucka, and building his own house at Toombeola. He reflects on his Kerry childhood and the death of his father; he describes his adopted family, a sortie to Dublin for Christmas, the writer Tim Robinson, and his neighbourhood and community; he celebrates the returned pine martens and the fauna and flora of a historic landscape; he undertakes a lecture tour in Canada organized by his former students; and throughout he engages with the immensities of the natural and spiritual worlds that form his habitat. In this posthumously published work, completed just weeks before his death, John Moriarty calls to account the literatures and legacies of European thought made manifest in the western extremities of Ireland. They bore witness to his own inner and outer journey, now documented in this compelling, writerly masterwork.