The Aran Islands

J.M. Synge, Tim Robinson, Tim Robinson

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Penguin Classics
15 June 1992

Literary essays; Classic travel writing

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.

Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, ""If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two."" Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The result is a passionate exploration of a triangle of contradictory relationships - between an island community still embedded in its ancestral ways but solicited by modernism, a physical environment of ascetic loveliness and savagely unpredictable moods, and Synge himself, formed by modern European thought but in love with the primitive.

By: J.M. Synge
Introduction by: Tim Robinson
Edited by: Tim Robinson
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 403
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 161g
ISBN: 9780140184327
ISBN 10: 0140184325
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 June 1992
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Robinson (External Editor, Introducer) A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands and commenced a multi-decade project of mapping and writing about Aran and Connemara. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and the Connemara trilogy, each published to great acclaim. He died in 2020.

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The Aran Islands

J.M. Synge, Tim Robinson, Tim Robinson

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