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Friel, Brian 저자(글)

Faber & Faber · 1981년 04월 27일

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Brian Frielwas born in Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) in 1929. He received his college education in Derry, Maynooth and Belfast and taught at various schools in and around Derry from 1950 to 1960. He is the author of many plays that have taken their place in the canon of Irish Literature, including Philadelphia, Here I Come!(1964), Lovers(1967), Translations(1980), The Communication Cord(1982), and Dancing at Lughnasa(1990). In 1980 he founded the touring theatre company, Field Day, with Stephen Rea.
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
From the troubled family life of five sisters in 1930s Donegal that is the core of Dancing at Lughnasa (now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep) to the current-day birthday celebration that is the major external event of Wonderful Tennessee, Brian Friel demonstrates his emotional range & empathy for his characters. He evokes not simply the interior landscape of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but the wider landscape-interior & exterior-of which they are part.
"Translationsis a modern classic. It engages the intellect as well as the heart, and achieves a profound political and philosophical resonance through the detailed examination of individual lives, of particular people in particular place and time."--Daily Telegraph "This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament."--Sunday Times
" Translationsis a modern classic. It engages the intellect as well as the heart, and achieves a profound political and philosophical resonance through the detailed examination of individual lives, of particular people in particular place and time."-- Daily Telegraph "This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament."-- Sunday Times
"Translationsis a modern classic. It engages the intellect as well as the heart, and achieves a profound political and philosophical resonance through the detailed examination of individual lives, of particular people in particular place and time."--Daily Telegraph "This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament."--Sunday Times

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저자(글) Friel, Brian

20세기 후반 가장 위대한 영어권 극작가로 평가받고 있다. 1960년부터 극작에 전념했다. 인간 욕망의 한 형태로서 가족 간의 유대, 의사소통, 신화 만들기, 그리고 서사와 역사, 국적 사이에서 마구 뒤얽힌 개인과 개인, 개인과 집단 간의 관계에 대한 집중적인 탐구를 통해 아일랜드의 사회적이고 정치적인 삶에 천착했다. 일상에 내재된 삶의 의미와 인간 정서를 탐색해 간다는 점에서 프리엘은 흔히 ‘아일랜드의 체호프’ 또는 ‘에메랄드 체호프(Emerald Chekhov)’로 불리기도 한다. 2006년 아일랜드 예술원 최고 영예회원(Saoi) 직에 선출되었으며 2011년 ‘2010 도네갈의 인물’로 선정되었다. 2015년부터 매년 루나사 국제 프리엘 페스티벌이 개최되고 있다. 이렇듯 브라이언 프리엘은 문학가로서 최고 영예를 누리다 2015년 8월에 영면에 들었다. 그의 희곡들은 현재 아일랜드와 영국뿐만 아니라 뉴욕 브로드웨이는 물론 전 세계적으로 활발히 무대에 오르고 있다.

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ISBN	9780571117420 ( 0571117422 )
발행(출시)일자	1981년 04월 27일
쪽수	112쪽
크기	127 * 196 * 10 mm / 91 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어