"The road away becomes the road back": prodigal sons in the short stories of John McGahern
This article is an analysis of John McGahern’s short fiction as a retelling of the parable of the Prodigal Son in the Gospel of Luke. The case is made that the entire body of short fiction forms one connected work and that the journey of the central protagonist forms a circular route away from and t...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2010
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |