Labyrinth
About this book
Like J.M. Synge almost a century before him, Tim Robinson portrays the inner and outer life of a landscape and its inhabitants. Encyclopedia of myth and reality, herbal, love-letter, missal, jest-book, anthology of cultural responses – Stones of Aran juggles modes from page to page. Its apparent inexhaustibility is borrowed from just one scrap of the Earth's surface: Arainn, the largest of the three Aran islands, off Ireland's west coast. The first volume, Pilgrimage, led the reader around the coastline, dazzled and enchanted by the complex interplay of rock and ocean. Labyrinth concludes this microscopic mission, opening up the interior and merging cosmic themes with the utterly personal. By the end, the island is mysteriously returned to itself, untrodden and unread. Stones of Aran: Labyrinth is a companion volume to Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (1986), the acclaimed first step of a magisterial survey. Nine years on Robinson completes his quest.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I. EAST
- II. RESIDENCE
- III. WEST
- IV. POSTSCRIPT
- SOURCES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Maps
- INDEX
- About the Author
- Copyright
