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Article: Understanding John McGahern.(Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Understanding John McGahern. By DAVID MALCOLM. (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. xiv+163 pp. $34-95. ISBN 978-1-57003-673-6.
David Malcolm is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Gdansk, and he writes with expertise for the wide audience envisaged in this series, from students to non-academic readers looking for the kind of informed introduction that will make the literature of another culture accessible. This book aims to cover McGahern's fiction and its critical reception. It itemizes critical efforts to place his oeuvre among those of Beckett and Joyce, '2E' and George ...