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John Banville introduces Hubert Butlers masterful essays on Europe, following his volume of Butlers essays on Ireland, The Eggman and the Fairies. The breadth of Butler's interests and concerns is remarkable, even for a writer whose career spanned the greater part of a tumultuous century ... whether he is writing about wartime atrocities or local history, the slaughter of the Jews or Celtic hagiography, he speaks with authenticity. In this he is a member of a dying species.' John Banville Like Milosz from Poland or Holub from Czechoslovakia, Butler is a true cosmopolitan, and his writing has something of their unruffled astringency and meditative humour. John Bayley He has all the essayists gifts: a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs and their significance sub specie ternitatis, a readiness to generalize, the ability to digress without wandering from the point, to inform without pedantry and enlighten without condescension, to give us pleasure simply by sharing his thoughts. Hugh Bredin Imagine an impossible combination of Flann OBrien and Isaiah Berlin. Well, Butler comes close. Ferdinand Mount An odyssey, from Ireland to East, West and back again: stemmi

Author

Butler, Hubert, author; Banville, John, editor

Publisher

London: Notting Hill Editions

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781907903519