The Rhetorical Town

Pocketbok. The Dolmen Press. 1985.

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Baksidestext:

There are three lined-up circumstances in this book: the paradoxical business of beinig in love, the seamless fixed mythology that goes on between father and son, and the rhetorical instrument that language makes itself in the interests of persuasion.
The bull, from newspaper mythology in the first section, holds in the second as the absent cause of the trouble at Knossos, and is in the third what language both fights and wants to civilise, entown. The foreign place, half-dreamed, where love was, the left town, wholly dreamed, of being someone's child, and the classical urbs, its forum awake, are the lived-in trinity of one address, the Rhetorical Town.
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. He read Latin and English at Trinity College, Dublin. Since 1977 he lived for some years in France, England, Greece and Switzerland, and now lives in Ireland. He has published two books of fiction, Macker's Garden (Co-op Books, 1982), Time out of Mind (Wolfhound Press, 1983), and The Water-Colourist, a first collection of poems (The Dolmen Press, 1983). He has published poetry and fiction in several papers and journals. In 1982 Sebastian Barry was awarded a bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland, and was the Irish participant in the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa in 1984. His novel for young readers, Elsewhere, is to appear under the Brogeen Books imprint (The Dolmen Press, 1985).