John McGahern
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This, after all, was the artist who, while so often taking himself for his subject, always admired Joyce’s Dubliners precisely because “its classical balance allows no room for self-expression”. Writing became religious for McGahern: if he rebelled... Full Article at The Scotsman
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This is interesting new material, and Sampson goes on to observe that “much of McGahern’s fiction is grounded in the material given to him by his own experience, and confirms that the redemption of the personal life is central to his whole work”. Loyal... Full Article at Irish Times
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Enright, however, is having none of it. “Whoever thinks the short story harmless for being closer to a ‘folk’ tradition,” she declares, “has not read John McGahern, whose stories are the literary equivalent of a hand grenade rolled across the kitchen... Full Article at Irish Times
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John McGahern (November 12, 1934 – March 30, 2006) was an Irish writer (in English). Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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