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My People (Paperback)

by Caradoc Evans (Author), John Harris (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 154 pages
  • Publisher: Seren; New edition edition (23 Feb 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0907476813
  • ISBN-13: 978-0907476818
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 512,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "The Banned Burned Book of War", 27 Nov 2003
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When "My People" was published in 1915, it became a book that was acclaimed by the English and detested by the Welsh. Evans uses his novel to portray the religious upheaval that Wales was undergoing. His use of Welsh-English dialogue and purposely incorrect translations is a technique that caused outrage within the Welsh rural community. The book contains fifteen stories, all inter-related outlining the lives of the inhabitants of Manteg. "My People" also details the customs and traditions unique to the locality, but it's handling of such beliefs gave it an "anti-Welsh" perspective. This is not a book that is easily read by those who have no grasp of the Welsh language as it has the ability to lose its genius to those who do not understand its purpose.
It cannot be doubted that this book highlighted the chasm between the Welsh and the English; on the one hand it was described as "the best literature that came out of Wales," but on the other, Welsh reaction to the book was severely hostile.
This is a book that caused a literary sensation and was critically acclaimed as a text worthy of comparison with the work of famous writers such as James Joyce.
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4.0 out of 5 stars West Walian wonder........, 20 Mar 2008
Finished on a springlike morn and how glad I am to have found and read this short collection of west walian tales from over 80 years back. Seren Classics have beautifully packaged this slim volume,with old pictures and a long essay on the background to these tales.
Evans,a journalist from Carmarthenshire,has created a dark world of spiritual anguish,fed by the local non-comformist chapels who lord over their subjects with austere biblical manners. The language is that of the bible,fused with welsh sayings,vernacular phrases and cadences. There are about 12 little stories all concerned with the local area of Carmarthenshire where he grew up.
In some the action is almost viciously dark and bleak, old Nanni who dies with her face being eaten by rats,the preacher who keeps his mad wife confined to his hayloft,the young lover who kills his girl and her tempter alongside cardigan bay. In other tales it is more subtle but this a bleakly realistic work,Evans rarely lets the true face of welsh peasantry be covered by a lace veil and while in some places this seems very unforgiving,in others it makes you think of how the religious authorities in west wales had replaced the landowners with their codes of conduct and blind faith.
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