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- An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book.
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Three spinster sisters, Imogene (Dench), Helen (Crosbie), and Lily Langrishe (Williamson), lose their equanimity — and in the case of Imogene her virginity — when a mature German student (Jeremy Irons) rents lodging from them while he works on his thesis.
In his sophisticated debut novel, Langrishe, Go Down, published in 1966, Higgins took a defining theme of Irish literature, the death throes of the big house, and made it wonderful and...
This slow burn dirge chronicles one familial example in the decline of Ireland's landed gentry. After the Langrishe patriarch passes on, his four adult daughters fade away into spinsterhood on the family land, slowly selling off bits and pieces in order to survive.
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Langrishe, Go Down. Written by Aidan Higgins Review by Ann Northfield. Set in Ireland in the 1930s, the novel basically focuses on a love affair between Ingrid Langrishe, an Irishwoman, and a German scholar named Otto—and that is really mostly that.
Oct 7, 2010 · Fiction – paperback; New Island Books; 320 pages; 2007. First published in 1966, Aidan Higgins’ first novel, Langrishe, Go Down, is regarded as an Irish classic. It won the James Tait B…
Feb 9, 2023 · An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes—a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family—through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book.
In Langrishe, Go Down, the Anglo-Irish Big House, which a proto-fascist German outsider uses for his own pleasure, becomes a symbol of a moribund, flaccid civilization yearning for violation. In its most powerful moments, Langrishe, Go Down is about.
