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Heinrich Pesch 
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| More Islands | Mar 14, 2006 |
As already has been pointed out, many Skandinavian plots take place on islands. In fact Danmark is mostly islands.
Also St. Petersburg is a built on an archipelago in the river Neva. So Gogol's Nose and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment among others happen on islands.
Also Venice is an archipelago: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann comes to mind.
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| "The Corsican Woman" | Mar 14, 2006 |
by Madge Swindells
Also:
"Oublier Palerme" by Edmonde Charles-Roux set largely on Sicily though I've only read about a third of the German translation (Karl-Ulrich von Hutten) "Palermo vergessen..." I have of it purchased in at a Public Library sale. Made into a film in 1991, "The Palermo Connection".
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John Millington Synge's play "Riders to the Sea", set on the Aran Islands, in Ireland. Brilliant play.
Peig Sayer's autobigraphy, Peig, studied by every secondary school student in Ireland, set on the Blasket Islands, just off the South Coast of Ireland.
Twenty Years a Growing, by Maurice O'Sullivan, and The Islandman, by Tomas O Crohan, more literary autobiographies from the Blaskets.
Thomas Mann's Der Erwaehlte (The Holy Sinner), on one of Germany's North... See more John Millington Synge's play "Riders to the Sea", set on the Aran Islands, in Ireland. Brilliant play.
Peig Sayer's autobigraphy, Peig, studied by every secondary school student in Ireland, set on the Blasket Islands, just off the South Coast of Ireland.
Twenty Years a Growing, by Maurice O'Sullivan, and The Islandman, by Tomas O Crohan, more literary autobiographies from the Blaskets.
Thomas Mann's Der Erwaehlte (The Holy Sinner), on one of Germany's North Sea islands for a fair part of the tale.
George Mackay Brown's poery collections (I've read a selected) and his novels and stories (A Time to Keep and Other Stories is superb) are all, (or nearly all?), set on the Orkney Islands.
All the best,
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I remember reading The Master at primary school in the 1970s.
The Master, an Adventure Story, T. H. White
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| A few more... | May 5, 2006 |
Philip Ashton - The Strange Adventures of a Castaway
Michael Morpugo - Kensuke's Kingdom
J.M. Barrie - The Admirable Chrichton (play)
Henry De Vere Stacpoole - The Blue Lagoon
Constance Fenimore Wilson - Anne
Mo Hayder - Pig Island
Gloria Naylor - Mama Day
Michael Dorris - Morning Girl
Peter Benchley - The Island
Charles Bernard - A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Ca... See more Philip Ashton - The Strange Adventures of a Castaway
Michael Morpugo - Kensuke's Kingdom
J.M. Barrie - The Admirable Chrichton (play)
Henry De Vere Stacpoole - The Blue Lagoon
Constance Fenimore Wilson - Anne
Mo Hayder - Pig Island
Gloria Naylor - Mama Day
Michael Dorris - Morning Girl
Peter Benchley - The Island
Charles Bernard - A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Captain Charles Bernard. ▲ Collapse
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-Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff (partially set on Tahiti).
-Un hiver à Majorque - George Sand.
-Iphigenia in Tauris - Euripides and its modern version Iphigenie auf Tauris - Goethe.
-Master and Commander - the first book of Patrick O`Brien`s series about Captain Jack Aubrey is partially set on Mallorca and I suppose some of the other books are at least partially set on other islands as well.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned in a previous post:
"Up Island" by Anne Rivers Siddons
~ Annika
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Taiwan
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| Novel set on PROCIDA | Nov 15, 2006 |
Hi everyone!
Very interesting topic.
My contribution arrives way too late, I suppose... but it seems like nobody mentioned (or maybe I just overlooked it) "L'isola di Arturo" written by Elsa Morante in 1957 and set on the beautiful island of Procida. The novel can also be read in its English translation by Isabel Quigly, republished by Steerforth Press Edition (c)2002
Have you all a nice day!
Antonio
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| Great minds sound alike | Dec 20, 2006 |
Literary works set on islands is huge and perfect work,
We will join in to beautify the islands
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| The Mermaid Chair | Dec 21, 2006 |
by Sue Monk Kidd, set on the fictional Egret Island
| | | | | Island theme at Franco-Irish Literary Festival 2007 | Mar 9, 2007 |
FRANCO-IRISH LITERARY FESTIVAL 2007
Talking about Islands, A propos des Iles…
27, 28, 29 April 2007
The theme of the eighth Franco-Irish Literary Festival will be:
2007: Talking about Islands, A propos des Iles…
This theme was chosen as a tribute to Michel Déon who is the Guest of Honour of the Festival.
During the three-day Festival, a variety of themes associated with “Islands” will be debated by the writers invited. Among the themes... See more FRANCO-IRISH LITERARY FESTIVAL 2007
Talking about Islands, A propos des Iles…
27, 28, 29 April 2007
The theme of the eighth Franco-Irish Literary Festival will be:
2007: Talking about Islands, A propos des Iles…
This theme was chosen as a tribute to Michel Déon who is the Guest of Honour of the Festival.
During the three-day Festival, a variety of themes associated with “Islands” will be debated by the writers invited. Among the themes to be discussed will be:
Islands and Utopia (The island as an idealised place): Islands as a focus for dreams and fantasies or for projects to build a purer world. And The Fantasy of the deserted Island: The desert island as the ideal for meditation and the exploration of the self.
Islands and Culture (The island as a cocoon): Human habits and customs have always been easier to preserve in isolated areas such as islands; is this a positive or negative point? Are there disadvantages to geographical isolation and its cultural effects? Is isolation still possible in an era of travel and globalisation?
Islands and Language (Laboratory or melting pot?): This will be discussed in a panel that will also include publishers.
Islands as Penitentiaries and Exiles (The island as punishment): Here the darker side of islands - as places of banishment and exile – will be considered.
Islands and Territories (The current challenge): How are islands defined territorially? What is the relationship between the island and the mainland? Impact on/of immigration?
Childhood Islands (Imaginary island): How has children’s literature represented islands and how large do they loom in the childhood imagination?
www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com/ ▲ Collapse
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| | | First and foremost.. a big hello to the Esmerald Isle! :))) | Dec 5, 2007 |
First and foremost.. a big hello to the Esmerald Isle! ))
Now for...
Malvinas Islands
In selling literature in translation, there’s always a joke/fear that readers won’t pick up a book by an author whose name they can’t pronounce. Or if they do, that they’ll struggle dealing with names and places that are unfamiliar, with too many consonants, that are obviously foreign.
Rodolfo F... See more First and foremost.. a big hello to the Esmerald Isle!))
Now for...
Malvinas Islands
In selling literature in translation, there’s always a joke/fear that readers won’t pick up a book by an author whose name they can’t pronounce. Or if they do, that they’ll struggle dealing with names and places that are unfamiliar, with too many consonants, that are obviously foreign.
Rodolfo Fogwill’s Malvinas Requiem has a similar, yet different problem—my guess is that most U.S. readers have no idea what “Malvinas” might signify, and although “Falkland Islands” might help clarify, the Falkland War is not something frequently studied in our not-very-top-notch public school system.
Which is a shame, since Fogwill’s book is quite remarkable, deserving of the Catch-22 comparison in the jacket copy, and a very interesting, literary “war book” that is both localized and universal in its themes.
And today, twenty-five years later, the book is definitely still work reading. The translation is fantastic—Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson always do a wonderful job—and the book is interesting on so many levels, even if you have no idea where the Malvinas Islands are located ( South Argentina, South Atlantic)
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/20/122559.php
Islands of Banishment...
St John was banished to the island of Patmos.
Napoleon was banished to Elba and St. Helena.
Nelson Mandela, the most famous prisoner of Robben Island
Walter Sisulu, has written ‘The name Robben Island is inextricably linked to the struggle against colonialism, for freedom, democracy and peace in South Africa. Robben Island’s notorious history as the place to which so-called undesirables of our society were banished ... should be turned around into a source of enlightenment and education ..
http://www.robben-island.org.za/departments/directorate/conservation/statement.asp
Rhodes Island
The city of Rhodes was created in 408BC and in 290BC the Colossos was created. It was also at the point in time that the speaker Eshinis, who was banished to the island, created a college that in time would become the place where many famous personalities would come to continue their studies. In 164BC the island allied itself with Rome and with their help the island's development increased. During the Byzantine Era the island received many attacks from the Persians, Arabs, Venetians, pirates and finally the Crusaders.
Shakespeare's The Tempest
In which the resolution suggests the beneficial effects of the union of wisdom and power. In this play a duke, deprived of his dukedom and banished to an island, confounds his usurping brother by employing magical powers and furthering a love match between his daughter and the usurper's son. Shakespeare's poetic power reached great heights in this beautiful, lyrical play.
Greece
Near Crete, former "leprosy island" Spinalonga (people with the disease where banished to the island … up to mid last century) is worthwhile - having a strong imagination that place left a lasting impression.
Devil's Island
In 1969 an ex-Devil's Island convict named Henri Charriere published a bestselling book about his escape, entitled Papillon. Charriere braved the unforgiving Atlantic and the blazing sun of the tropics alone for nearly 60 hours before reaching the mainland and later finding freedom. During his nightmarish escape he was at the mercy of the tides and with very little provisions. His determination to escape at all costs illustrates a human spirit that would rather suffer than endure life on the "islands of death," as the prisoners called them.
GUERNSEY
After the conquest of England by William, seventh Duke of Normandy, some people were rewarded with land in Guernsey and others were banished to the island after falling out with the Duke.
Ireland in Bermuda!!!
Not in any way connected to the Republic of Ireland but believed to have been named after a man whose last name was Ireland. In the Great Sound, Sandys Parish. One of the six principal Bermuda islands. It is the narrow serrated island that pushes out into the Atlantic at the extreme north west of Bermuda. It has a completely separate history from the rest of Bermuda. It is historically important. It dates from when a Flemish or Dutch ship went aground in Wreck Bay on the Main Island and sank there in 1618. It was why the original name was Flemish Hill. The captain of the ship had the very English name of Powell and was a notorious Caribbean pirate. The buccaneer ship then had legal status as a privateer. It had sailed against the Spanish under a Letter of Marque by the Dutch prince Maurice of Orange, so was technically not a Flemish ship but a Dutch one. The British Government did not like the presence of Powell in Bermuda so Governor Miles Kendall banished him to the western Bermuda island now called Ireland Island. It was from there that Powell and his men tried to build a new ship. In 1795, Wreck Hill was bought by the Royal Navy - see Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda - which considered the Wreck Hill site an ideal one for a lighthouse. But the one that eventually got built at Gibb's Hill instead from 1840 caused the plans for this one to be scrapped. It is often assumed that Ireland Island is taken from the country by the same name but in fact was named after an individual. Until it became a major Royal Navy base in the 18th century, there were no roads and few inhabitants. Because there was a fear of leprosy, all those leaving there had to leave this jungle island of cedar and swine and wooden houses thatched with palmetto before the Royal Navy started moving in properly from 1809. It stayed until 1952, with a token presence until 1995.
http://www.bermuda-online.org/abcbda2.htm
Island Trivia:
Survivors
http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/survivor/down-on-exile-i-1651.php
http://www.realitytvcalendar.com/shows/survivor-ci.html
Island Magic:
Once though to be a place where witches and thieves were banished, the small island of Shapinsay is rich in history. The King of Norway assembled a fleet off the coast of Balfour, the main village on the island, in 1263. The ferry from Kirkwall lands here six times a day, so visitors do not have any problems with transportation. When you purchase your return ticket at Kirkwall, you also get an admission ticket for Balfour Castle, the best-known tourist attraction on the island.
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| Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Jan 11, 2008 |
I believe it is set on an island
A good read, too.
[Edited at 2008-01-11 11:28]
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