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Article: 'All this talk and struggle': John McGahern's The Dark.(Critical Essay)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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The most striking stylistic feature of John McGahern's second novel, The Dark is that the narrative voice constantly shifts between the first, second, and third person, until in the concluding chapter there seems to be no discernible narrative presence at all. We know that McGahern considers style as the most important expression of the sense of reality of any fiction. In a late essay he put it thus:
If we think of style as the man, of style as the revelation of
personality in language and that the quality of the personality is
more important than the material out of which the pattern is shaped,
then the opposite can be argued: style itself must be the ...
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Article: Obituary: John McGahern
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April 4, 2006 ;
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...JOHN McGAHERN Short story writer, novelist ... aged 71. WITH the death of John McGahern from cancer, Ireland has ... sprang to prominence with The Dark (1965), his second novel ... casts a shadow across The Dark that stretches all the way ...
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