247 pages
French language
Published April 10, 1989 by Presses de la Renaissance.
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The Dark, John McGaherns second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father.Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.
Subjects
- McGahern, John, -- 1934-2006 -- Translations into French.
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
- Ireland -- Fiction.