pickSynge, a culturally sensitive Dubliner & peer of Joyce and Yeats, saw simplicity in the islanders of Aran and idealizes the setting, which is both this book‘s unforgettable charm and its chief fault. He is morbid throughout regarding the fate of Aran‘s young fishermen on the rough seas, feeling that he talked with men “who were under a judgement of death. Stark but lovely prose conveys Aran‘s wild beauty and isolation well
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