Prof. Alan Titley talks about his translation of The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, May 2020 скачать в хорошем качестве

Prof. Alan Titley talks about his translation of The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, May 2020

Writer, scholar and translator, Prof. Alan Titley joined Prof Michael Cronin, Director of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, for a conversation about Titley's translation of the darkly comic novella The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, published by Yale University Press in 2019. Published just months before he died in 1970, Máirtín Ó Cadhain's novella follows the story of a nameless civil servant, N., in the days immediately following the death of his wife. N. is a lost soul on a hopeless quest for salvation: he hates his job, his wife’s family and trusts no one and, in a cloud of grief, he wanders the streets in a futile search for salvation.The Dregs of the Day is a darkly humorous look at the widower’s attempts to arrange his wife’s funeral without money, a plan or anyone to turn to. Overcome by events, N wanders the city streets, his mind trapped in a cycle of regret and avoidance, aimlessly watching people go about their lives around him. With black humour sprinkled throughout, the book illustrates Ó Cadhain’s conviction that tragedy and comedy are inextricably linked. Alan Titley's new translation brings this work to an English-speaking audience for the first time, beautifully capturing the despair and humour of the original. Alan Titley is the acclaimed translator of Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece, Cré na Cille (The Dirty Dust) which for many years was considered untranslatable. If you enjoy our events and would like to get more involved, you can now become a Friend or Patron of Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. More information at: https://www.tcd.ie/literary-translati...