Oriel Myrddin Book Club
Friday 12 October 6 – 7:30 pm
Alongside our exhibition Haptic/Tacit: In Search of the Vernacular we will be reading On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin, chosen especially for us by the Haptic/Tacit group.
A story portraying the lives of identical twin brothers, Lewis and Benjamin Jones, on their isolated upland farm called The Vision on the border of Radnor and Hereford (“…said to run right through the middle of the staircase.”). The brothers live in the farmhouse where they were born, working the soil and sleeping in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advance of the 20th century.
‘(Chatwin) knows intimately the comedies, the tragedies and above all the passions and deceits of toil on the land…This is a very moving yet also often funny book.’ V.S. Pritchard, SundayTimes
‘(Chatwin) belongs, like Lawrence and Hardy before him, to that line of novelists, poets, diarists and amateur naturalists who have made the rural life of Great Britain more intimately known to generations of readers than that of any other country in Europe or America’ New York Times Book Review
‘Merits the accolade of ‘masterpiece’” The Daily Mail
Join us for a friendly discussion led by Haptic/Tacit artist Jane Cairns
Free entry, tea and cake provided.
Clwb Llyfrau Oriel Myrddin
Dydd Gwener 12 Hydref 6 – 7:30 pm
Ochr yn ochr â’n harddangosfa Haptic/Tacit: In Search of the Vernacular byddwn ni'n darllen On the Black Hill gan Bruce Chatwin, a ddewiswyd yn arbennig i ni gan y grwp Haptic/Tacit.
Dyma stori sy’n cyfleu bywydau’r efeilliaid unfath Lewis a Benjamin Jones, ar eu fferm ucheldir anghysbell o’r enw The Vision ar y ffin rhwng Sir Faesyfed a Swydd Henffordd (“…said to run right through the middle of the staircase.”). Mae’r brodyr yn byw yn y ffermdy lle cawsant eu geni, yn trin y pridd ac yn cysgu yn yr un gwely, ac ond weithiau’n dod i gyswllt â hynt yr 20fed ganrif.
‘(Chatwin) knows intimately the comedies, the tragedies and above all the passions and deceits of toil on the land…This is a very moving yet also often funny book.’ V.S. Pritchard, SundayTimes
‘(Chatwin) belongs, like Lawrence and Hardy before him, to that line of novelists, poets, diarists and amateur naturalists who have made the rural life of Great Britain more intimately known to generations of readers than that of any other country in Europe or America’ New York Times Book Review
‘Merits the accolade of ‘masterpiece’” The Daily Mail
Ymunwch â ni am drafodaeth gyfeillgar a arweinir gan artist o’r grwp Haptic/Tacit, Jane Cairns.
Mynediad am ddim gan gynnwys te a chacen.
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