James Stephens

La insurrecci n de Dubl n es un diario que refleja, en primera persona, c mo se vivi el Alzamiento de Pascua de abril de 1916 en la capital irlandesa, antecedente directo de la independencia del pa s respecto al Reino Unido. Hoy, m s de cien a os despu s, en un mundo d nde las naciones sin estado propio siguen ocupando las portadas de los peri dicos, parece interesante, y casi necesario, revisar c mo se sucedieron los hechos en un mundo sin redes sociales. Stephens relata como durante la insurrecci n, la mayor parte de los dublineses en el centro de la ciudad quedaron sumidos en un total desconocimiento de lo que realmente suced a. Declarado el estado de sitio, sin peri dicos, sin medios de comunicaci n, la gente quedo librada a sus propios recursos para conseguir el m s m nimo dato que le permitiera interpretar el caos que la rodeaba. "La barbarie es mayormente la ausencia de noticias", observa Stephens al quinto d a. La noticia es reemplazada por el rumor. ste diario documenta, especialmente, no tanto lo que pasa, sino lo que se dice que est pasando. Nada est escrito. Aunque los acontecimientos de Dubl n se resolvieron con la derrota de los alzados despu s de una semana de combates, abrieron la puerta a que en 1921 se creara y reconociera el Estado Libre Irland s.

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Taking up the major philosophical and psychological concerns of the early-twentieth century―over a decade before works by T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, among others, would cement literary Modernism's place in history―The Crock of Gold is a groundbreaking and important work. The text centers on the Philosopher and his wife, the Thin Woman, who undergo a series of journeys and harrowing trials. Faced with danger both human and divine, the two characters are forced to weather the winds of change in order to change themselves. Divided into six books, The Crock of Gold―no doubt inspired by the Irish oral tradition of storytelling―follows the Philosopher's quest to save the most beautiful woman in the world; his encounter with the gods who have captured her; his return home and arrest for murder (he has been framed by leprechauns incensed at the loss of their crock of gold); and finally, the Thin Woman's quest to find the fabled Three Infinites.

Taking up the major philosophical and psychological concerns of the early-twentieth century―over a decade before works by T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, among others, would cement literary Modernism's place in history―The Crock of Gold is a groundbreaking and important work. The text centers on the Philosopher and his wife, the Thin Woman, who undergo a series of journeys and harrowing trials. Faced with danger both human and divine, the two characters are forced to weather the winds of change in order to change themselves. Divided into six books, The Crock of Gold―no doubt inspired by the Irish oral tradition of storytelling―follows the Philosopher's quest to save the most beautiful woman in the world; his encounter with the gods who have captured her; his return home and arrest for murder (he has been framed by leprechauns incensed at the loss of their crock of gold); and finally, the Thin Woman's quest to find the fabled Three Infinites.

Roger Mifflin, proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, said it best: "If you need 'all manner of Irish, ' and a relapse into irresponsible freakishness, try 'The Demi-Gods, ' by James Stephens. It is a better book than one deserves or expects. It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way." Three angels come to Earth to learn more about people. They land in the Irish countryside and encounter a nomadic man and his feisty daughter, and what happens next is what happens next. The latest volume in The Roger Mifflin Collection, classics of the early 20th century as curated by Mifflin himself in The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley.