Saints And Scholars
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Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when the Irish revolutionary James Connolly survives his 1916 execution and flees across a storm-lashed landscape to a remote island cottage, only to find it already occupied by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and a cast of brilliantly mismatched minds? Saints and Scholars, Terry Eagleton's audacious debut novel, plunges four towering historical and fictional figures — Connolly, Wittgenstein, the literary Leopold Bloom, and the anarchist Nikolai Bakhin — into a darkly comic collision of politics, language, and belief set against the windswept Irish coast. Eagleton, one of the foremost Marxist literary critics of the twentieth century, brings his formidable intellectual arsenal to bear on questions of freedom, identity, and the limits of language, crafting a philosophical fantasia that is as playful as it is serious. The novel wears its erudition lightly, staging debates between its larger-than-life characters with wit and theatrical flair, drawing on the traditions of both the Irish literary revival and European modernism. A work that refuses to choose between the life of the mind and the demands of political action, it leaves the reader wondering whether ideas alone can ever be enough to change the world.
Author: Terry Eagleton
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when the Irish revolutionary James Connolly survives his 1916 execution and flees across a storm-lashed landscape to a remote island cottage, only to find it already occupied by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and a cast of brilliantly mismatched minds? Saints and Scholars, Terry Eagleton's audacious debut novel, plunges four towering historical and fictional figures — Connolly, Wittgenstein, the literary Leopold Bloom, and the anarchist Nikolai Bakhin — into a darkly comic collision of politics, language, and belief set against the windswept Irish coast. Eagleton, one of the foremost Marxist literary critics of the twentieth century, brings his formidable intellectual arsenal to bear on questions of freedom, identity, and the limits of language, crafting a philosophical fantasia that is as playful as it is serious. The novel wears its erudition lightly, staging debates between its larger-than-life characters with wit and theatrical flair, drawing on the traditions of both the Irish literary revival and European modernism. A work that refuses to choose between the life of the mind and the demands of political action, it leaves the reader wondering whether ideas alone can ever be enough to change the world.