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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
“This undiscovered country” in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille and George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo
Contributor:
Morse, Donald E.
imprint:
Universitatea Sapientia din municipiul Cluj-Napoca, 2018
Published in:Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2478/ausp-2018-0002
ISSN:
2391-8179
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s <jats:italic>The Dirty Dust</jats:italic> (1949, trans. 2015) and George Saunders’s <jats:italic>Lincoln in the Bardo</jats:italic> (2017) illustrate two very different uses of the literary device of conversations in a cemetery. Ó Cadhain distilled the venom of selfishness and vicious back-biting found in a small rural Irish village then refined it through comedy and satire, while Saunders created a collage of voices by employing a combination of fantastic devices together with fragments of history, newspaper articles and biography to eulogize Abraham Lincoln as grieving parent and to demonstrate that love does indeed transform the world – even the world of the dead.</jats:p>