Colum McCann is rightly acknowledged as being one of Ireland’s most talented living novelists. The success of his most recent novel, Let the Great World Spin (2009), which won the National Book Award in America in 2009 and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011, really cemented his reputation as a writer of substance. He is also one of the new generation of Irish novelists who possess few discernibly ‘Irish’ traits, their preoccupations being of a more global nature.

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The Burden Of Knowing: Camus, Qohelet, And The Limitations Of Human Reason, Justin K. Morgan Feb 2012

The Burden Of Knowing: Camus, Qohelet, And The Limitations Of Human Reason, Justin K. Morgan

Liberty Theological Review

In one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus writes this: “This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction.” Here, Camus addresses what he believes to be one of the main sources of the absurd: the limitations of human reason. He claims that his inability to fully understand human reality creates a gap between his existence and its meaning, and, in effect, renders the …

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Alvaro Mutis: La Última Escala Del Tramp Steamer, Nathalie Pauner Jan 2012

Alvaro Mutis: La Última Escala Del Tramp Steamer, Nathalie Pauner

INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica

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Diamela Eltit: Vaca Sagrada, Guillermo Garcia-Corales Jan 2012

Diamela Eltit: Vaca Sagrada, Guillermo Garcia-Corales

INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica

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(‘Cat On Spec’), Nina Zammit-Zorn Jan 2012

(‘Cat On Spec’), Nina Zammit-Zorn

SPECS journal of art and culture

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