![]() ![]() The earlier novel achieves this by contrasting a nineteenth-century ruling couple’s venality and their leadership’s grand pretensions in The Gathering, the probing of national identity occurs through an invocation of the child abuse that has been shown to have been commonplace in post-Independence Ireland, and which, in conjunction with discoveries of other histories of neglect, fractured the country’s self-understanding on the cusp of and during the recent economic boom. Yet, the writerly finesse of The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is replicated in The Gathering, and, more to the point, The Gathering-like its predecessor-prompts questions about national identity and the effect of its construction. ![]() The emotionally charged contemporary terrain of The Gathering (2007) marks a return to the somber fiction that Anne Enright appeared to leave behind in the cool ironies and historiographic pretensions of The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002), set in nineteenth-century Latin America. ![]()
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