The essay focuses on the "modern" consciousness of the main character of McGahern's novel “The Pornographer”. The intimate ambiguity of this consciousness is dramatized through the role of the pornographer, that is to say the author of bad writing, but also this definition has an ambiguous meaning in so far as pornography seems to be the only real, even if paradoxical opposition to death thanks to its technique of nothingness. In fact, in its technical description, it offers the way of systematizing the values of vacuity.
Bendelli, G., John Mc Gahern's The Pornographer or the representation of Nothingness: An attempt to overcome Irish parochialism, in The Classical World and the Mediterranean., (Sassari, Alghero (Sardegna), 07-10 September 1994), Tema, Cagliari 1996:1996 188-193 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/162961]
John Mc Gahern's The Pornographer or the representation of Nothingness: An attempt to overcome Irish parochialism
Bendelli, Giuliana
1996
Abstract
The essay focuses on the "modern" consciousness of the main character of McGahern's novel “The Pornographer”. The intimate ambiguity of this consciousness is dramatized through the role of the pornographer, that is to say the author of bad writing, but also this definition has an ambiguous meaning in so far as pornography seems to be the only real, even if paradoxical opposition to death thanks to its technique of nothingness. In fact, in its technical description, it offers the way of systematizing the values of vacuity.
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