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Seamus Deane</a></span></span></p> <p class="alsoknownas">Also includes: <a href="/author/deane-3">Deane (3)</a></p></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_mainworks" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_fd18" data-caret-id="tdc_u_fd18" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_72ac" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("mainworks", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="mainworks" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_fd18" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Works by Seamus Deane</h2><span id="tdh_u_72ac" ><a name="mainworks"></a><div class="section_controls"><div data-value="0" class="lt_pillbox lt_blend_nav small lt_small" id="recent_pillbox" ><a data-value="0" data-onclick="lt.newauthor.sortWorks('deaneseamus', 0);" role="button" class="selected" ><span class="ltp_txt">Popular</span></a class="" ><a data-value="1" 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note">21,795 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 218 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/3483" data-workid="3483" data-title="Dubliners" class="" >Dubliners</a> <span class="date">(1914)</span> — Editor, some editions — <span class="copies note">20,322 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 232 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/191238" data-workid="191238" data-title="The-Year-of-the-French" class="" >The Year of the French</a> <span class="date">(1979)</span> — Introduction, some editions — <span class="copies note">709 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 12 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/2556327" data-workid="2556327" data-title="Granta-37-The-Family" class="" >Granta 37: The Family</a> <span class="date">(1991)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">158 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 3 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/56858" 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review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/49536" data-workid="49536" data-title="Nationalism-Colonialism-and-Literature" class="" >Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature</a> <span class="date">(1990)</span> — Introduction — <span class="copies note">87 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/788503" data-workid="788503" data-title="Best-Short-Stories-1992" class="" >Best Short Stories 1992</a> <span class="date">(1992)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">13 copies</span></div><div id="u_8f06f3c9" class="rolldown" data-action="slide" data-more="show more" data-less="show less" data-all="show all 12" ><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/8404824" data-workid="8404824" data-title="The-Contest-of-Language-Before-And-Beyond-Nationalism" class="" >The Contest of Language: Before And Beyond Nationalism</a> <span class="date">(2005)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">5 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a 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data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark-A-Novel" class="" >Reading in the Dark: A Novel</a> by <a href="/author/deaneseamus">Seamus Deane</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_42647fdb" >Snapshots of memory are displayed by the Northern Irish narrator between his childhood from 1945 into adulthood in 1971 as he explores a family tension of secrets, closed and open, against the backdrop of the ever present Troubles. In often luminous writing, the tender despair of human frailties in a world without heroes or villains is gently presented. The story meanders at times, like all family stories, and the reveal is not particularly revealing. At the heart of the story is the idea <u class="showmore_hide">of conflicted loyalties and the collateral damages they can generate: the truth can set one person free but sometimes only after it has driven another person into a permanent cage.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_42647fdb');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_423d2645" title="3.5 Stars" aria-title="3.5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="7" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="0" class="ratehalf selected" >½</i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_263679861" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_263679861"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_263679861" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_263679861" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_263679861" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_263679861"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/saschenka" target="_top">saschenka</a> | <a href="/work/50230/reviews" data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark-A-Novel" class="" >17 other reviews</a> | May 10, 2024 | <a href="/review/263679861"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_219662605" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/23762171" data-workid="23762171" data-title="Nyughatatlan-%C3%ADr-lelkek" class="" ><img src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/79/3d/793db3e1d91a45f596f364f7451426b41414141_v5.jpg" srcset="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/0e/81/0e81057f8df509f596f364f7451444941414141_v5.jpg 2x, https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/f4/79/f479feb423eaadf596f364f7451417341514141_v5.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/23762171" data-workid="23762171" data-title="Nyughatatlan-%C3%ADr-lelkek" class="" >Nyughatatlan ír lelkek</a> by <a href="/author/deaneseamus">Seamus Deane</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_e8f8f560" >Hogy látja egy kissrác Derryből* az íreket? Nos, felületesen nézve éppen úgy, mint a legtöbb külföldi: babonák és kísértethistóriák. Katolicizmus és függetlenségi harc. Whiskey és viszály. Deane a líra mentén tolja ki a regény határait, rövid fejezetekből felépülő prózája olvasható lenne akár versfüzérként is, ha a nyomdászok kreatívabban tördelték volna a szöveget. És mégis képes arra, hogy ezeket a villanásokat valami koherens egésszé rendezze, <u class="showmore_hide">valamivé, ami egyszerre érzékeny és sokat sejtető (de keveset magyarázó) látlelet egy család személyes tragédiájáról, ugyanakkor az egész észak-ír tragédiáról is. Rekonstrukció ez, az emlékek helyreállítása. Mert az emlékek hajlamosak arra, hogy az idő teltével alakot váltsanak, tényszerűségüket alárendeljék az emlékező azon vágyának, hogy úgy nézzenek ki, ahogy ki kellett volna nézniük: szégyenletes vagy szimplán érdektelen eseményből dicső emlékekké magasztosuljanak. Deane mintha ezt a folyamatot fordítaná vissza, hogy a mítosz mögött fellelje az igazságot – ami ugyan csak egyetlen személyes igazság az igazságok milliói között, de talán éppen ebből nyeri erejét.<br><br>* A szövegben Derryként szerepel, de a hátsó borítón Londonderry olvasható, amit, nagyon remélem, nem látnak meg az ír pajtások, mert nagyon mérgesek lennének miatta.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_e8f8f560');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_859717b3" title="4 Stars" aria-title="4 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="8" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="7" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_219662605" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_219662605"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_219662605" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_219662605" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_219662605" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_219662605"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Kuszma" target="_top">Kuszma</a> | Jul 2, 2022 | <a href="/review/219662605"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_205051585" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/50230" data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark-A-Novel" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700234.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700234.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700234.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/50230" data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark-A-Novel" class="" >Reading in the Dark: A Novel</a> by <a href="/author/deaneseamus">Seamus Deane</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_544dc66c" >This is a fine Northern Irish novel that was a real grower. Set in Nationalist Derry during the 40s and 50s, at first this book reads like a series of vignettes in a young Irish Catholic boy's life, but as the novel gathers pace a connection begins to emerge between what had initially seemed like disconnected snapshots of growing up and the truth behind a series of family tragedies relating back to the the divided politics of a new Northern Ireland beginning to emerge.<br><br>There are <u class="showmore_hide">a number of recommendations on LT linking this to some of Frank McCourt's books, but beyond them both being set in Ireland during a certain era the similarities stop there for me. Whilst McCourt's Angela's Ashes is firmly in the misery lit territory of impoverished Ireland, Reading in the Dark is a window to Catholic Nationalist sentiment before The Troubles and dark family secrets born out of loyalty to 'the cause'.<br><br>This novel really evoked a sense of a forgotten rural Northern Ireland for me. Whether it would touch readers outside of Northern Ireland as much I can't say, but for me this is a work of tragic loss conveyed through pitch perfect prose.<br><br>4 stars - devastating yet so deftly sewn together.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_544dc66c');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_8abfc8cc" title="4 Stars" aria-title="4 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="8" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="7" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_205051585" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_205051585"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_205051585" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_205051585" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_205051585" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_205051585"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/AlisonY" target="_top">AlisonY</a> | <a href="/work/50230/reviews" data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark-A-Novel" class="" >17 other reviews</a> | Sep 3, 2021 | <a href="/review/205051585"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_141332631" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/50230" data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700234.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700234.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700234.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/50230" data-workid="50230" data-title="Reading-in-the-Dark" class="" >Reading in the Dark</a> by <a href="/author/deaneseamus">Seamus Deane</a></div></div><div class="" >Could not get into this book for some reason. 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