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Cemetery dirt

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Cemetery dirt
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This novel by an Irish modernist writer, published in 1949, was called "Joycean" by contemporaries, and critics compared it to the works of Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. Translators did not dare to start it for more than sixty years, but now Russian-speaking readers have an opportunity to get acquainted with one of the main masterpieces of Irish literature. The newly-declared Katrina Padin remains only to wonder whether she was buried, as she willed, in a plot for a pound or saved and lowered into the grave for fifteen shillings. Either way, she can no longer verify it. The dead do not rise from their graves. But they can communicate with each other. The hum of voices in Martin Ó Caigne's novel is unimaginable, even though all his characters are dead and the story takes place in a cemetery lost among the marshes in the west of Ireland. The dialogs of the dead are no different from those of the living, except that they are a little more sincere and braver, because they have nothing to fear, as well as to hide. Someone tries to clear up a crooked neighbor, someone to solve a long-standing dispute, someone hurries to scold negligent relatives, to cry about their lifetime troubles or, on the contrary, to be proud of their achievements. Gradually, all this polyphony merges into one long hum, the hum, ironic as it may sound, of life.
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