Selected Short Stories (The Association for Scottish Literary Studies)

Rok: 1978
ISBN: 9780707302188
OKCZID: 110393366

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
GALT, John a GORDON, Ian A., ed. Selected short stories. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1978. 213 s.

Anotace

John Galt's ability to write short stories crept up on him unawares. He was always, in print, a good teller of yarns - short narratives where the lively succession of incidents rather than the individual quality of the characters was what mattered. The outburst of short stories that came in Galt's Indian summer has never achieved critical attention. One is printed from his manuscript and this is its first appearance in book form. Another is reprinted here in its entirity for the first time. A third makes its first appearance here since its printing in 1836. Writte, as they were, in the West of Scotland, the spoken language is in his ears day and night - they transmute into literary form an idiom that is not matched for authenticity and authority even in his better-known novels. The Publisher and a portion of The Howdie are all that survive in manuscript. For the remainder texts are derived from their first printings. Background information on each of the stories is geven in the notes. Galt wrote a century and a half ago. The scenes he portrays go back another half century. Inevitably he now requires annotation, both for his language and for historical and local detail. The texts have been left unmarred by indication of footnotes but the final pages of Annotations and Vocabulary, combined into one alphabetical sequence, will provide what is required for the reader curious to discover what is going on.

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