En Grèce tout le monde était concerné par la musique et pendant longtemps les grecs l'ont appelée Sophia, qui signifie : sagesse, habilité et maîtrise. Tous les grands philosophes de la Grèce antique ont parlé de musique; ils disaient à son propos : "La...
Lire la suite"The great novelist John McGahern once wrote that Ireland has never been a nation, but a collection of tens of thousands of little republics called families. My sense is that Irish voters flooded to the polls to support their gay daughters and sons, their...
Lire la suiteReligion and philosophy What I called McG's philosophy is something recurrent in all his fiction : it is the feeling of emptiness that pervades all his books. Because of the drift from the land, the Irish countryside is empty : the bridge (41), the strand...
Lire la suiteDifferent faces of death Facing death, Moran is alone : man is always alone to die, noone will ever be able to die for him: la solitude appelle la hantise de la mort et la hantise de la mort referme la solitude (Edgar Morin L'Homme et la Mort p.278)....
Lire la suiteSilence In February 1975, Garfitt wrote an article in which McGahern, in the very title of the article, was qualified as "a silent traveller", for, as Garfitt put it : Silence is the background to all McGahern's writing. It lines the appearance of things...
Lire la suiteCharacterization Characterization is quite simply the study of characters in the novel. In AW, the main characters are members of the same family, the Morans. The novel can be considered as a saga since there are very few characters outside the family...
Lire la suiteNarrative Technique Most of the time, the narrator is omniscient, which means that he represents "God's eye", that he knows everything, the thoughts and inner feelings of his protagonists ; for example, when Moran is dying, we know what Luke thinks and...
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