The Dark

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He took the heavy leather strap he used for sharpening his razor from its nail on the side of the press. I hardly need add that this familial ideological configuration is, in its uniqueness, highly structured, and that it is in this implacable and more or less ‘pathological’ (presupposing that any meaning can be assigned to that term) structure that the former subject-to-be will have to ‘find’ ‘its’ place, i. These normative idealizations, echoed in de Valera’s writing, serve to anaesthetize women (and men) to the prescriptive confinements of sexist ideology. Here, too, McGahern (now at his fourth school in as many years) begins to understand the larger pressures bearing down on him: the dominance of the church, the power-play between priests and law-givers, the poverty of rural communities roundabout, the horrible lack of prospects and choices.

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This failure was made all the more starkly visible by the magnitude of its stakes and its rhetorical linkage, in de Valera’s utterances, to an ideal of Irish moral virtue and happiness. Every now and then you come across an author who makes you stop and think, here is someone who will keep me company for a long time to come. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that he now lives among the scenes of his earliest days, in Leitrim, and is able to encounter his past in a largely unchanged landscape.Lippard comments on the ways that domestic space, coded as the place of femininity, has long borne a bevy of idealizing clichés: “‘home sweet home,’ ‘a house is not a home’ […] and of course, a more telling pair—‘a woman’s place is in the home,’ and ‘a man’s home is his castle. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes.

John McGahern - Wikipedia

The story explores the relationship between a boy on the verge of manhood and his domineering widowed father. With a memoir you can't imagine or reinvent anything,' he says, sighing, as if this runs counter to all he believes in.

Although McGahern can hardly trust himself to believe it, this oppression gradually leads him towards a form of salvation. It was certainly a different process, much quicker, but the difficulty always is in getting the words right.