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Scottish Journey: A Modern Classic (Paperback)

by Edwin Muir (Author)
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  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Mainstream Publishing; New edition edition (12 Feb 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1851588418
  • ISBN-13: 978-1851588411
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 185,420 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry. Edwin Muir's journey took him from Edinburgh to the Lowlands, to Glasgow and the Highlands, and the book, while a masterpiece of travel writing, is also a quest for the real nature of Scottish identity. T.C. Smout writes in his introduction to this edition: 'Edwin Muir's Scottish Journey has the clarity and impact of a brilliant photograph. As a traveller's account it belongs to a genre familiar in writing about Scotland for centuries, and comprehending such masterpieces as the account of Dr Johnson ...and the Wordsworths. For writing of this kind it has no real rival in the inter-war years ...Muir held up a mirror to the face of Scotland all those years ago. It is frightening to see so many recognisable features in its glass.'

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4.0 out of 5 stars Why Should You Read This?, 5 Aug 2009
By David Manderson (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Edwin Muir came from the Orkneys, and remembered his childhood in those islands as a kind of paradise compared to the grinding poverty he subsequently endured in Glasgow when his family moved there. Working in dead-end jobs, he saw the brutalising effects of unemployment, pollution, heavy industry and the slums up close. Later, when he had to some extent escaped this background, he became, because of his experience of being both scarred by his upbringing and a permanent outsider from it, the best observer of 20th century Scottish life who ever made it into print.

It's this dual sense of detachment and horror that gives his "Scottish Journey" its uniqueness. Muir studies the land of his birth as he travels through it as if he's a newly-landed alien, recording the gloomily-charged atmosphere of Edinburgh tea-rooms and the dwarf alps of the Motherwell bings with equal fascination. In fact it's debatable whether the picture of Scotland which emerges is as much a portrait of Muir himself, and of the politics of the group of writers he belonged to, known as the "Scottish Renaissance", as their shared vision of the twenties dissolved into doubt and dispute during the thirties.

So why should you read a book about Scotland in 1934 if you're neither Scottish nor especially interested in history? Well, because it isn't about those things, but about a search for identity, Scotland's and Muir's, both of which had been broken and lost, and were still in the process of emerging. As the ever-wondering, disappointed but hopeful traveller, Muir speaks for everyone who has tried to piece themselves together from the bits they know. His journey through Scotland speaks to us today as if we're on that voyage with him.
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