The Aran Islands

ISBN-13: 9780810160248 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 162 str.

J. M. Synge; Edward J. O'Brien

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In the late 1890s, John Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocation, made his way to Paris to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butler Yeats. The eminent poet advised Synge to drop his involvement with fin de siecle French authors, return to Ireland, and describe a society with which he had a natural connection.
Synge first traveled to the primitive, little-known Aran Islands in 1898. His trip proved to be a wonderfully fruitful and decisive experience. He then went back for part of each summer until 1902. "The Aran Islands, " his memoir of those experiences, was published in 1907, and the future playwright called it his "first serious piece of work."
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