George Douglas Brown (1869–1902) was born #OTD, 26 January – best known for his 1901 novel THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS:
“…the TRAINSPOTTING of its day… an angry young man’s response to the misrepresentation of contemporary Scottish life”
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https://list.co.uk/news/39535/george-douglas-brown-the-house-with-the-green-shutters-1901
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“I remember the first novel in English I read through was a Scottish novel called THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS. […] When I read that, I wanted to be Scotch.”
—Jorge Luis Borges, interviewed by The Paris Review in July 1966
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https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4331/the-art-of-fiction-no-39-jorge-luis-borges
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“To pick up a pen is to place oneself outside the community… it is not really possible to write about community and remain uncompromised”
—read Dorothy McMillan’s essay “Rural Realism”, on George Douglas Brown’s THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/05/rural-realism/
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What follows is the text of the McNeillie Lecture, which I gave at the Wigtown Book Festival, 2006. Some recent interest in The House with the Green Shutters has prompted me to reproduce the lecture here. It has never been published and may provide readers with some thoughts, not academic, but I hope still of […]
“Perhaps because Scotland is placed geographically and linguistically at the periphery of the United Kingdom by an Anglo-centric vision, Scottish writers often write from and about particular places”
‘Location and dis-location in George Douglas Brown’s The House with the Green Shutters”
Benjamine Toussaint, Études anglaises 70/4, 2017
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https://shs.cairn.info/article/E_ETAN_704_0429?lang=en&ID_ARTICLE=E_ETAN_704_0429
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The House with the Green Shutters
Shown on BBC2 in 1989 as part of the “Edinburgh Nights” Edinburgh festival series by Communicado Theatre, the company’s first touring show
Act One
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfo2R1RGt9g
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The House with the Green Shutters
Shown on BBC2 in 1989 as part of the “Edinburgh Nights” Edinburgh festival series by Communicado Theatre, the company’s first touring show
Act Two
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSHGdWAb_U
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism #drama #theatre
“Illuminated by lightning flashes of descriptive brilliance, Brown’s prose evokes melodrama, Greek tragedy and postmodern alienation…”
You can download a free ebook edition of THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS from @gutenberg_org
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25876
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