DISTANT COUNTRIES: Ó CONAIRE, HAMSUN AND EXILE.
Pádraig Ó Conaire's interest in contemporaneous developments in European literatures is wellknown. While there is not enough evidence to decide about direct influence, it is very likely that he knew and read the seminal work of Norwegian early Modernism, Knut Hamsun's Sult (Hunger), and that it infl...
| Publicado en: | Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture Vol. 28; no. 55; pp. 43 - 56 |
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Charles University Prague, Faculty of Arts
2018
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| Sumario: | Pádraig Ó Conaire's interest in contemporaneous developments in European literatures is wellknown. While there is not enough evidence to decide about direct influence, it is very likely that he knew and read the seminal work of Norwegian early Modernism, Knut Hamsun's Sult (Hunger), and that it influenced his own novel Deoraíocht, which is widely regarded as one of the most important novels in the Irish language. This article discusses various parallels between the two works, introducing new contexts for both of them. |
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