John McGahern - b. 1934

John McGahern’s work has dominated the Irish literary landscape for almost forty years. First rendered famous by his first novel The Barracks, the writer then underwent the painful process of censorship and self-imposed exile after the banning of The Dark. If the following novels, The Leavetaking,...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse,
Auteurs principaux: Collinge, Linda, Vernadakis, Emmanuel
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Journal of the Short Story in English 2008
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:John McGahern’s work has dominated the Irish literary landscape for almost forty years. First rendered famous by his first novel The Barracks, the writer then underwent the painful process of censorship and self-imposed exile after the banning of The Dark. If the following novels, The Leavetaking, The Pornographer and Amongst Women have aroused increasing interest in his work and attracted praise and controversy, the three collections of short stories, Nightlines (1970), Getting Through (197...