Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind review, recensie en informatie van de verhalen over Ierland uit 1955 van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 5 juni 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Puskin Press in de reeks classics de heruitgave van het boek met verhalen over Ierland van schrijfster en schilder Ithell Colquhoun. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.
Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind review en recensie
- “She has not only a painter’s eye but something of the natural sociability and engaging nosiness of the travelling artist…an original and perceptive companion.” (The Sunday Times)
- “A rare and beautiful book…Has the authentic touch of the Gothic novelist.” (Times Literary Supplement)
The Crying of the Wind
Ireland
- Auteur: Ithell Colquhoun (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Ierse reisverhalen uit 1955
- Uitgever: Pushkin Press Classics
- Verschijnt: 5 juni 2025
- Omvang: 192 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 12,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind review en recensie
- “She has not only a painter’s eye but something of the natural sociability and engaging nosiness of the travelling artist…an original and perceptive companion.” (The Sunday Times)
- “A rare and beautiful book…Has the authentic touch of the Gothic novelist.” (Times Literary Supplement)
Flaptekst van het boek met Ierse reisverhalen van Ithell Colquhoun
Into the world of 1950s Ireland – a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class – arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a surrealist painter, Colquhoun’s travels around the island are guided by her artist’s eye and her feeling for the world beyond our own, as well as her spikily humorous view of the people she meets. We encounter faeries and pagan rituals, ruined churches and Celtic splendour, rowdy bohemians and Anglo-Irish landowners fallen on hard times, as the author carouses through Dublin and tramps the hills of Connemara in this classic travelogue.
Richly visual and full of sly wit, this is an account of Ireland as only Colquhoun could see it, a land where myth and magic meet wind and rain, and the song of the secret kingdom is heard on city streets.
Ithell Colquhoun was born on 9 October 1906 in Shillong, British India and brought up in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s, gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism. She began visiting Cornwall during the Second World War, and eventually moved there, continuing to write, paint, and pursue the study of the occult until her death. As well as The Crying of the Wind: Ireland, she is the author of The Living Stones: Cornwall and the novel Goose of Hermogenes, also available from Pushkin Press. She died at he age of 81 on 11 April 1988 in Cornwall.
