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Brendan Behan

    9 de febrero de 1923 – 20 de marzo de 1964

    Brendan Behan fue un artista irlandés cuya obra se caracteriza por un crudo realismo y una fuerte conciencia social. Enriqueció sus textos, escritos tanto en irlandés como en inglés, con una poderosa sensibilidad lingüística y rítmica. Su obra a menudo refleja sus propias experiencias vitales y convicciones políticas, lo que lleva a fuertes comentarios sociales. Su estilo es distintivo, lleno de humor crudo y profunda humanidad, lo que lo convierte en un autor único.

    Brendan Behan's Island
    The Hostage
    After The Wake
    Confessions Of An Irish Rebel
    Borstal boy
    The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays
    • The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays

      • 421 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      A scintillating collection of five plays from the last sixty years of Irish drama featuring work by Behan, Barry, Reid, Murphy, and McDonagh, and introduced by Patrick Lonergan.

      The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays
    • Borstal boy

      • 372 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      The autobiography of Irish writer and poet Brendan Behan. It focuses on his life in reform school, following his arrest as an IRA activist.

      Borstal boy
    • Confessions Of An Irish Rebel

      • 259 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me. Not only is it the last instalment of a unique and unorthodox autobiography, but of a unique and unorthodox life that was as touched with genius as it was with doom.

      Confessions Of An Irish Rebel
    • After The Wake

      • 156 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.

      After The Wake
    • Brendan Behan's Island

      An Irish Sketchbook

      The late Brendan Behan captured the essence of Ireland in this compilation of Dublin talk, reminiscence, comment, verse and anecdote. The text is complemented by Paul Hogarth's drawings.

      Brendan Behan's Island
    • This edition gathers all the articles and essays that Behan published in newspapers from 1951 to his death in 1964.The articles reveal a serious writer capable of great comic set pieces and amusing yarns as well as thoughtful reflections on cultural and historical issues.

      A Bit of a Writer
    • This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in EnglishContains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless and spoiling for a fight ... with superb dramatic tact, the tragedy is concealed beneath layer after layer of rough comedy" Observer); The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging-house of doubtful repute where a young English soldier is being kept prisoner, "shouts, sings, thunders and stamps with life...a masterpiece" (The Times); and Richard's Cork Leg, set in a graveyard, "a joyous celebration of life" (Guardian). The volume also contains three one-act plays, originally written for radio and all intensely autobiographical, Moving Out, A Garden Party and The Big House.

      The complete plays
    • Als charismatisches Unikum, als anarchischer Freiheitskämpfer und geselliger Trunkenbold galt Brendan Behan als »größter Dubliner Star seiner Zeit«. Mit drei Jahren konnte er lesen, mit acht wurde er Mitglied der IRA und mit 24 hatte er bereits ein Drittel seines Lebens im Gefängnis verbracht. Auf den Bühnen des Londoner Westend und in den Inszenierungen Peter Zadeks waren seine Stücke mit ihrem unbändigen Witz Riesenerfolge. Die nun veröffentlichten brillanten Texte widmen sich den großen Themen Liebe, Leid und Tod voller Übermut. Als genauer Beobachter des Arbeitermilieus mit einem Gespür für Dubliner Redewendungen und surreale Begebenheiten beschreibt Behan seine Figuren in ihrer ganzen Respektlosigkeit und Unangepasstheit. Seine Texte strotzen vor Anspielungen, Liedern und Sprichwörtern und zeichnen das Bild eines wilden, kämpferischen Irlands, das es so heute nicht mehr gibt.

      Frau ohne Rang und Namen