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Chargement... The Collected Storiespar John McGahern
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. It’s rare that I read every short story in a published collection, usually choosing a story here and there, but I deviated from this habit when I finished John McGahern’s The Collected Stories. As with most short story collections whereby you can see the author’s writing skill develop, McGahern’s style and vision seem to have been already formed when he started to write. The early stories have the same confidence, humor and grace as the last. One of things I like about his writing is that he avoids any stylistic flashiness in favor of a modest fluid prose, and avoids any pastoral vision casting a sentimental eye over his subjects (it’s more of a dark vision). It’s only when he makes an occasional pitch into philosophizing that his writing becomes shockingly laborious and dull, which in a lesser writer would be no more than a fleeting wrong note sounds like a whole sustained chord gone out of tune. Maybe they’re so startling because, fortunately, they’re so rare. I’m admittedly a tainted witness when it comes to giving an opinion of McGahern’s work, but some of these stories hold their own with any of the masters of the form. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This collection of short stories are from the author shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize with his book Amongst Women. John McGahern is also the author of The Barracks, The Dark, Getting Through and The Pornographer. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The stories work best in short doses of one of two at most in a sitting. You might safely dip in to any story in the collection and not be disappointed.
Gently recommended. ( )