Последние издания книг Томаса Фланагана

Thomas Flanagan became famous as the author of a trilogy of novels, starting with The Year of the French, about Ireland from the rebellion of 1798 to the civil war of the 1920s. But the novelist who began by reimagining the mental and physical world of eighteenth-century County Mayo had long been immersing himself, as a scholar, essayist, and reviewer, in the literature and history of his ancestral land.
In the nonfiction writings collected here, many of them unpublished in his lifetime, Flanagan brings what Christopher Cahill calls his "keen eye and strong gaze and sharp tongue" to reassessments of key figures of Irish culture. They range from Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, through W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Collins, to contemporaries and friends like Brian Moore and Frank O’Connor, and American Irish like the Molly Maguires and the director John Ford.
Flanagan probes the tragically intertwined origins of celebrity and literary modernism in the careers of Irish-American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill, and John O’Hara. He reflects on what his own novels have taught him about the possibilities of historical fiction. And his thoughts on Irish-American identity sum up the long-pondered mixture of experience and scrutiny he brought to his heritage.
Witty, lively, and learned, this collection reveals that Thomas Flanagan was not only as a master of the historical novel but a writer who meditated broadly and deeply on the Ireland he once described as "a complex, profound, historical society, woven of many strands, some bright and some dark."

Interweaving history and fiction, Flanagan tells a complex story of the passionate people who helped shape today's Ireland. "Flanagan manages to sustain interest in the individual lives of his characters while creating a sense of monumental historical drama in which they are players".--New York Times Book Review.

This Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection is a panoramic view of three generations of Irish people and passion. The lives of three extraordinary men are bound together by the tides of history in this sweeping tale that includes remarkable historical figures such as Oscar Wilde and Disraeli.

Роман известного американского писателя Томаса Фланагана рассказывает об освободительном движении ирландского народа на рубеже XVIII-XIX веков. Глубокое знание истории Ирландии, ее экономического и политического положения помогло писателю создать правдивое и достоверное произведение о важном этапе борьбы этой страны за независимость

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack.
Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. It is quite simply a great historical novel.

“Professor Flanagan's approach is historical and social as well as critical and he has written a fascinating work of literary and social history as well as of literary criticism.”–Times [London] Literary Supplement

In dem historischen Roman «Der P?chter der Zeit» berichtet Thomas Flanagan ?ber den lange aufgestauten Freiheitsdrang der Iren, der sich 1867 mit dem schicksalhaften Fenier-Aufstand entl?dt. Die vier Freunde MacMahon, Tully, Delaney und Nolan, getrieben von unterschiedlichen Motiven und Sehns?chten, schlie?en sich der Revolte an. Gek?mpft wird gegen das britische Empire, dem Irland unterstellt ist. Doch schon bald lassen Treulosigkeit und fehlende Koordination den Aufstand zusammenbrechen. Das Leben der vier Freunde nimmt eine schicksalhafte Wendung.
– Mithilfe von verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet der Autor die damaligen Lebensumst?nde und bringt dem Leser auf spielerische Weise die Komplexit?t der irischen Geschichte n?her. Ein fundierter und spannender Roman ?ber ein dramatisches Kapitel der irischen Geschichte, sowie ?ber eine tragische Liebe und die Enth?llung eins bed?chtig geh?teten Geheimnisses.Thomas Flanagan studierte an der University of Notre Dame sowie an der Duke University, wo er schliesslich sein Master und sp?ter PhD Studium abschloss. Unterdessen lehrt er als Professor an verschiedenen amerikanischen Universit?ten, haupts?chlich Literatur und Geschichte Irlands und lebt in Long Island, New York. Sein erster Roman «Ein Traum von Freiheit» erschien in hohen Auflagen und begeisterte Publikum und Kritiker in gleicher Weise. -

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack.

Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. It is quite simply a great historical novel.

Named the most distinguished work of fiction in 1979 by the National Book Critics' Circle.