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EBOOK Young John McGahern:Becoming a Novelist
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191633355
EAN: 38F8BFEDEB
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Stron: 176
Data wydania: 2012
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John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His        accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the        accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer.          He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London, and the West of        Ireland, where he grew up-and became known for the intimacy and honesty of his        mapping of home truths of Irish life. His first novel, The Barracks, was        widelyhailed as a classic on publication in 1963, and his later work, including        Amongst Women and That They May Face the Rising Sun, and, indeed, Memoir, is built        on the stylistic foundation of that novel. The first ten years of McGahern's career        were the crucial, for it was during this time that he became an artist.This book        explores a young man's discovery of literature. McGahern's youthful realization that        books provide both intense pleasure and a spiritual lifeline towards a unique kind        of knowledge matured in his twenties. Struggling to overcome desolating experiences        in childhood, and abandoning conventional beliefs, he found his anchor in European        literary classics. His discovery of how a powerful individual personality could be        embedded in novels and stories inspired him. He became an impassionedreader of        Proust, Tolstoy, and Flaubert as well as a select few local writers, the poet        Patrick Kavanagh and the novelist Michael McLaverty, whose work more closely        mirrored his own experience and aspirations.Denis Sampson recreates McGahern's        personal and cultural circumstances in Dublin and London in the fifties and early        sixties: his absorption of the lives and the work of classic writers; his shrewd        observations of those he encountered; his definition of the kind of poetic writer he        wished to become. He consider McGahern's first efforts as an apprentice novelist and        weaves the inner story of the writing of The Barracks in 1960-62 into a narrative of        his imaginative formation.This is an account of McGahern's triumphant emergence from        what he called 'my years of training in the secret Dublin years'. In the decades        that followed, whilst he experimented in styles and genres, the foundational aspects        of his identity as a writer remained constant.

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