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Crynodeb:
Pan fo’r signalwr rheilffyrdd Harry Price yn dioddef o drawiad mae ei fab, Matthew, sy’n ddarlithydd yn Llundain, yn dychwelyd i bentref Glynmawr ar y Gororau. Wrth i Matthew a Harry fynd i’r afael â’u hatgofion am newid cymdeithasol a phersonol, ymddengys portread prydferth a thyner o’r cariad rhwng y tad a’r mab.

Nodiadau bywgraffyddol:
Ganed Raymond Williams ym 1921 ym mhentref Pandy ar y Gororau. Dysgodd yn Rhydychen a Chaergrawnt ac ym 1974 fe’i penodwyd yn Athro Drama yng Nghaergrawnt.

Mae ei gyhoeddiadau mwyaf adnabyddus yn cynnwys; Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution (1961), The Country and the City (1973), Keywords (1976) a Marxisim and Literature (1977).

Rhagflas byr

I first read Border Country when it appeared as a Penguin paperback in 1964. Its author was familiar to me for his pathbreaking critical studies Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution (1961), but an undergraduate from the Rhondda at Oxford did not buy hardback novels, and I had only been made aware of the existence of Raymond Williams’ 1960 novel from biographical blurbs. I shelled out my five shillings and took it home. For me it crackled with the excitement of a discovery I had somehow known all along. I did not stop reading until, some time the next day, it was finished, and I have never stopped rereading that original copy since.
Darllenwch y rhagair cyfan i Border Country YMA...

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