Without realizing it, through the pleasure of the mind, I was beginning to know and to love the world. […] I look back on my time therewith noting but gratitude, as years of luck and privilege-and of grace, actual grace (J. McGahern, All Will Be Well: A Memoir).
INDICE
Introduzione ... 1
1. L’universale nel locale: Un mondo privato ... 19
2. “The Wheel”: La circolarità ... 40
2.1 Il viaggio ... 47
2.2 Il ritorno alla natura ... 59
3. “The Swansong”dell’Irlanda rurale ... 78
3.1 “From the Darkness to the Rising Sun” ... 82
3.2 Un Eden elegiaco ... 99
4. Conclusioni ... 109