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The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction.(Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20000401
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Colm Toibin, editor. Viking. [pounds]25.00/Can$55.00. 1086 pages. ISBN 0-670-85497-2. The editor of this anthology, himself one of Ireland's leading novelists, argues that 'the purpose of much Irish fiction, it seems, is to become involved in the Irish argument, and the purpose of much Irish criticism has been to relate the fiction to the argument.' Irish writers cannot escape their geography and their historical relations with Great Britain. 'Irish history,' he continues, reads like a form of fiction.' In this anthology of Irish writers from Jonathan Swift in the eighteenth ...

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