The narrator in Neil Jordan's short stories

In 1976 in Ireland, a young writer published a collection of short stories. His name was Neil Jordan and Night in Tunisia, his first volume, earned him the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. A number of reviews written at the time praised him highly and considered that he was a very promising young ta...

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1. Verfasser: Pernot-Deschamps, Maguy
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Journal of the Short Story in English 2008
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:In 1976 in Ireland, a young writer published a collection of short stories. His name was Neil Jordan and Night in Tunisia, his first volume, earned him the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. A number of reviews written at the time praised him highly and considered that he was a very promising young talent, and yet Neil Jordan's career after 1979 was to take a new direction. His interest in literature was gradually to take second place and the world of words was to be taken over by that of image...