“Translation as Mutation”: Ciaran Carson’s In the Light of

This article deals with the way Ciaran Carson has managed to translate, or rather “mutate”, some of Arthur Rimbaud’s prose poems Illuminations into an entirely different work, a verse collection in alexandrines, while keeping close to the original spirit. This article will follow three movements, first the form and structure, then the matter of translation proper, and finally the overall tone of the collection which relies on the music of the language itself

Exchange Place by Ciaran Carson or a sense of déjà vu

In his novel Exchange Place published in 2012, Ciaran Carson draws upon the motif of the quest in order to weave an intricate web of threads that irresistibly attracts the reader into a world of make believe, which is perhaps the only one worth experiencing. This article will argue that in this work temporality is envisaged as composed of disjointed fragments that are so many anachronisms revealed through analogies, resemblances and correspondences

“A MINEFIELD SALTED WITH EYEBRIGHT”: AN URBAN POET’S MUSINGS IN ON THE NIGHT WATCH AND UNTIL BEFORE AFTER BY CIARAN CARSON

Abstract: This paper aims at showing how in On the Night Watch and Until Before After, two verse collections published respectively in 2009 and 2010, Ciaran Carson used new forms of exploring language and reached another depth while retaining most of the themes and preoccupations that pervaded his whole work

J.G.Farrell in his Own Words, Selected Letters and Diaries

Dans l’avant-propos de cet ouvrage dont la publication coïncide avec le trentième anniversaire de la mort accidentelle et prématurée de James Gordon Farrell dans la baie de Bantry, John Banville décrit l’auteur de Troubles en ces termes : « Jim Farrell the man was immensely attractive, tall and slender and possessed of a slightly jaded and even slightly sinister elegance ». Certes, il ne pouvait laisser indifférents ceux, ou celles, qui eurent l’occasion de croiser sa route, même de manière f..

Le double portrait et les trois oranges : effets de miroir dans Shamrock Tea de Ciaran Carson

Cet article a pour but de montrer comment, par le biais de la représentation picturale, en l’occurrence une huile sur toile du peintre flamand Jan van Eyck, Ciaran Carson a introduit dans Shamrock Tea une dimension hybride et plurielle qui fait de ce récit en prose un miroir aux reflets infiniment changeants. Certes le phénomène du double tend à remettre en question la représentation du monde et de la réalité, mais dans le même temps le concept de la Trinité, métaphorisée par les trois oranges du tableau, vise à donner une appréhension englobante du monde.This article aims at showing how, by way of pictorial representation, ie. an oil on wood by Jan van Eyck, Ciaran Carson has introduced a hybrid and plural dimension in Shamrock Tea, which transforms this prose narration into a multiple and forever changing mirror. Indeed, the concept of the double tends to question the representation of the world and reality, yet at the same time the metaphor of the trinity embodied by the three oranges in the painting purports to offer an all-including apprehension of the world

Ciaran Carson : The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, a new translation

Delattre Elisabeth. Ciaran Carson : The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, a new translation. In: Études irlandaises, n°28 n°1, 2003. pp. 201-202

Ciaran Carson : The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, a new translation

Delattre Elisabeth. Ciaran Carson : The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, a new translation. In: Études irlandaises, n°28 n°1, 2003. pp. 201-202

“A Fusillade of Question Marks”: (re)presenting the present or the poet as a chronicler in The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson

This paper aims at showing in what way The Irish for No is both a testimony, a record of events as witnessed by the poet and a means of transcending a fundamentally monstrous reality through the power of words. Carson’s writing is first and foremost a writing of violence, which uncovers an uncommon reality dominated by suffering, madness or death. The normative representation gives way to a form of representation of excess, which is bound to be confronted by limitations, but which the poet-chronicler’s voice allows to reconcile by means of the metaphor

Ciaran Carson : Breaking News

Delattre Elisabeth. Ciaran Carson : Breaking News. In: Études irlandaises, n°29 n°1, 2004. p. 164