{"id":1328,"date":"2023-11-07T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:45:44","slug":"brian-mcneill-the-horsemans-word-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Brian McNeill: The Horseman’s Word and other stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brian McNeill, long celebrated for his interpretation of Scotland and its history in music and song, has turned to expressing himself about his homeland through fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shafted and swingletreed, polished harness straining, caps low against the October wind, the plough teams appeared over the hill and began to comb the nether slope into brown ridges. On the brow you’d have smelled the turning and falling of the wet earth, and you’d soon have known the differences between each man and his work\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the simmering tensions below the surface of a lowland farm before the first world war to a vengeful cat\u2019s view of the conflicts of a modern metropolitan household, the tales here show humanity and humour, murder and morality, and the everyday courage it takes to confront the contradictions of class and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erh\u00e4ltlich auch in der deutschen \u00dcbersetzung<\/a> von Gabriele Haefs<\/a> und Julian Haefs<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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170 Seiten<\/td>13,0 x 20,5 cm<\/td>2020<\/td>25 CHF \/ 23 \u20ac<\/td>Taschenbuch<\/td>978-3-903349-03-2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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It was probably a wink of fate that his short story collection The Horseman\u2019s Word<\/strong> fluttered onto my table. It contains half a dozen stories: Farmers shortly before the Great War, a dance school in the 1950s; the Korean War cripple Flash Gorton. These are impressions introducing the life and goings-on in and around Brian’s hometown of Falkirk, located between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The real hero is the language, namely the area’s dialect and colloquial language, which from Brian’s point of view is so „subtle, succinct, pithy and pungent“.<\/p>\nFolkWord Nr. 74<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian McNeill, long celebrated for his interpretation of Scotland and its history in music and song, has turned to expressing himself about his homeland through fiction. Shafted and swingletreed, polished harness straining, caps low against the October wind, the plough teams appeared over the hill and began to comb the nether slope into brown ridges. On the brow you’d have smelled the turning and falling of the wet earth, and you’d soon have known the differences between each man and hisRead More→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,86,11],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-buecher","category-erhaeltlich","category-romane","tag-mcneill_buch_e"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Cover_McNeill_Englisch_130x205.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korrigenda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}