Hope Mirrlees – författare

"Den är ett litet gyllene mirakel, den här boken". Så skriver Neil Gaiman i förordet till Hope Mirrlees roman från 1926. Mellan älvlandet och havet ligger den fria staten Dorimar. I huvudstaden Dunkelros lever borgmästaren Gyllenkamme ett stillsamt och behagligt liv, tills det en dag visar sig att hans tolvårige son ätit av den förbjudna älvfrukten. Boken blev från 1970-talet en kultbok i fantasykretsar. Detta är den första svenska översättningen någonsin. Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) var en engelsk författare, översättare och poet. Hon var god vän med Virginia Woolf och TS Eliot och levde och skrev under många år tillsammans medklassicisten och feministen Jane Harrison.

A true classic - and the 'single most beautiful...and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century' Neil GaimanLud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The Dapple springs from the land of Faerie, and is a great trial to Lud, which rejects anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Nathaniel Chanticleer, a dreamy, melancholy man, is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his son, he realises Lud is changing - and something must be done.

Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.

Paris: A Poem is a daring, experimental, psychogeographic long poem written by the British writer Hope Mirrlees. Offering a snapshot of post-war Paris, it describes a journey through the city from day to night by means of innovative and playful typography, collage and fragmentation. This would be a centenary edition, reproducing the original design and setting of the very first, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1920.

The book that New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman considers "one of the finest [fantasy novels] in the English language."Between the mountains and the sea, between the sea and Fairyland, lay the Free State of Dorimare and its picturesque capital, Lud-in-the-Mist. No Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or Fairyland. Bad business, those fairies. The people of Dorimare had run them out generations ago--and the Duke of Dorimare along with them. Until the spring of his fiftieth year, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist and High Seneschal of Dorimare, had lived a sleepy life with his only son, Ranulph. But as he grew, Ranulph was more and more fond of talking nonsense about golden cups, and snow-white ladies milking azure cows, and the sound of tinkling bridles at midnight. And when Ranulph was twelve, he got caught up with the fairies, and Nathaniel''s life would never be the same.

The prosaic and law-abiding inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist, a city located at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, in the state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit and the effect of the inhabitants of the bordering land of Faerie, whose presence and very existence they had sought to banish from their rational lives. When the denial proves futile, their mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, finds himself involved reluctantly with the conflict and obliged to change his conventional personal life and disregard the traditions of Lud-in-the-Mist to find a reconciliation.

Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia Woolf ‘obscure, indecent, and brilliant’. Read today, the poem retains its exhilarating daring. Mirrlees’s experimentalism looks forward to The Waste Land; her writing is integral to the twentieth-century canon.And yet, after Paris, Mirrlees published no more poetry for almost half a century, and her later poems appear to have little in common with the avant garde spirit of Paris. In this first edition to gather the full span of Mirrlees’s poetry, Sandeep Parmar explores the paradoxes of Mirrlees’s development as a poet and the complexities of her life.Sandeep Parmar was the first scholar to gain access to the Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge, and her edition includes many previously unpublished poems discovered there in draft form. The text is supported by detailed notes, including a commentary on Paris by Julia Briggs, and a selection of Mirrlees’s essays. The generous introduction provides the most accurate biographical account of Mirrlees’s life available. Mirrlees’s Collected Poems is an indispensible addition to a reading of modernism.Julia Briggs OBE was Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at De Montfort University. Among her many influential publications were a biography of E. Nesbit and her acclaimed Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. She died in 2007.Cover Painting Juan Gris (1887-1927), Breakfast, 1915. Oil on canvas. Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris / Peter Willi / The Bridgeman Art Library

«Hope Mirrlees se ha aventurado en el reino de George MacDonald, de C. S. Lewis y de Jorge Luis Borges: ha construido algo brillante e imaginativo que sin duda amerita estar a la par de Morris, Dunsany y otros maestros de la fantasía moderna».Lin CarterEntrebrumas es una próspera ciudad mercantil de apariencia medieval gobernada por Nathaniel Chanticleer, un burgués respetable. En su día, sus habitantes, amantes del orden y del trabajo, decidieron separarse del Reino de las Hadas. Sin embargo, un buen día llega de contrabando fruta de las hadas, un manjar prohibido que provoca en aquellos que lo comen un acceso de alegría y creatividad, lo cual trastoca el orden establecido y obliga a sus habitantes a sumergirse en una aventura que cambiará para siempre el curso de su vida. «Uno de los antecedentes de Tolkien y Lewis, Entrebrumas no sólo es un maravilloso relato sobre la convivencia de lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario, sino también una reflexión sobre la relación entre el arte y la vida». Publishers Weekly«La escritura de Mirrlees se mueve entre el humor, el vitalismo poético y la auténtica perversidad». The Encyclopedia of Fantasy«Una tragicomedia shakesperiana, un asesinato misterioso, una alegoría polifacética y una historia fantástica».Mary Gentle«Lo que tenemos aquí es la más rara de las criaturas: la novela fantástica de las ideas».Michael Swanwick

"París. Un poema" representa un importante hito en la vanguardia en lengua inglesa. Publicado en 1920 en Hogarth Press, la mítica editorial fundada y dirigida por Leonard y Virginia Woolf, condensó muchos de los postulados del modernismo (el gusto por lo "oculto", la fragmentación, el carácter o el "método mítico", las alusiones literarias, históricas y políticas o la libertad formal) y antecedió en casi tres años a "La tierra baldía", de T. S. Eliot. Una auténtica "joya perdida" de la cual ofrecemos la primera traducción al castellano.