La “producción” de “reflexión”: elecciones adolescentes en The Dark, de John McGahern.

Autores/as

  • Martin Keaveney National University of Ireland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9351

Palabras clave:

John McGahern, The Dark, producción, reflexión, adolescente

Resumen

En este estudio se aplica el concepto de producción, definido aquí como la aplicación de las energías propias a la producción de un bien o servicio; y reflexión, es decir, la búsqueda de una vida puramente contemplativa, con el beneficio de compartir los frutos de esta reflexión con los demás, en los capítulos 4 a 7 de la novela de John McGahern The Dark (1965). Al superponer estos términos en un sentido aristotélico al trabajo de McGahern, se manifiesta la lucha del adolescente disfuncionalizado entre producción y reflexión, pero la disminución resultante de la sección positiva del yo también se representa, traducida como destrucción de la autoestima y el privilegio del yo negativo a través de la representación en los mencionados capítulos de la corrupción del cuerpo, la mente y el espíritu.

Biografía del autor/a

Martin Keaveney, National University of Ireland

Martin Keaveney’s scholarship was recently published in the peer-reviewed  New Hibernia Review and Journal of Franco-Irish Studies.  His debut collection of stories, The Rainy Day, was published  by Penniless Press in 2018. Short fiction has been published in many literary journals in Ireland, UK and US. He has also written for the screen and his writing has been produced and exhibited at many international film festivals and on broadcast television.  He has a B.A. in English and Italian, an M.A in English (Writing) and a Ph.D. from NUIG (Creative Writing and Textual Studies).   He was awarded the Sparanacht Ui Eithir for his research in 2016 and the NUIG Write-Up Bursary in 2018. See more at www.martinkeaveney.com

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Publicado

17-03-2020

Cómo citar

Martin Keaveney. (2020). La “producción” de “reflexión”: elecciones adolescentes en The Dark, de John McGahern. Estudios Irlandeses, 15(1), 62–72. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9351