John McGahern and the Art of Memory (English, Dermot McCarthy)

About the Book

In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir , he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a dimension he had hitherto either denied or mystified. Taking Memoir as a paradigmatic work of memory, confession, and imaginative recovery, this book is a close reading of McGahern's novels that discovers his narrative poiēsis in both the fiction and the memoir to be a single,…

ISBN: 9783034301008