Under Milk Wood A Dreamlike Day in a Welsh Seaside Village Through Choral Voices and Poetic Radio Drama
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
CopycatSeitenzahl
68
Maße (L/B/H)
0,4/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
114 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2346-6
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's lyrical "play for voices," a richly textured evocation of a Welsh seaside village over the course of a single spring day. Through a mosaic of dreams, gossip, prayers, and remembered desires, Thomas transforms ordinary lives into something incantatory and comic, moving fluidly between tenderness, eroticism, melancholy, and farce. Written for radio yet deeply poetic in method, the work stands at the intersection of modernist experiment and oral storytelling, its musical language and omniscient narration recalling both biblical cadences and the communal forms of medieval pageant or pastoral. Thomas, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Welsh poets, brought to this work his distinctive ear for sound, rhythm, and sensuous imagery. His upbringing in Swansea, his intimate knowledge of Welsh speech-patterns, and his lifelong fascination with memory, childhood, and performance all helped shape the imagined village of Llareggub. Composed over several years and completed near the end of his life, Under Milk Wood distills Thomas's artistic preoccupations into a single, highly wrought dramatic poem. This is an essential book for readers interested in poetic drama, modern Welsh writing, or the possibilities of language itself. Under Milk Wood rewards slow, attentive reading, offering wit, humanity, and verbal brilliance in equal measure.
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