Patrick McGrath (novelist)

Patrick McGrath ( born February 7, 1950 in London) is a British author, whose work is attributed to the genre of the Gothic novel. Recurring themes are mental disorders, homosexuality and adultery. McGrath often uses the stylistic device of the unreliable narration, that is, the statements of the (otherwise usually omniscient ) narrator face with the progress of the plot partly be false.

Patrick McGrath is married to the director and actress Maria Aitken and lives in New York City.

Novels

• The Grotesque (1989 ), German grotesque (1990 ) - a film by John -Paul Davidson, see The Grotesque
• Spider ( 1990) - a film by David Cronenberg, see Spider ( film )
• Dr Haggard 's Disease (1993 ), dt Dr. Haggard's Disease ( 2000)
• Asylum ( 1996), German Stella ( 1997) - a film by David Mackenzie 2007 (not to be confused with the resulting 1972 film of the same title )
• Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution (2000)
• Port Mungo (2004), dt Port Mungo (2004)
• Trauma ( 2008)

Short story collections

• Blood and Water and Other Tales (1989 ), German Blood and Water (2008)
• Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then And Now (2005), German Ghost Town. Three stories from Manhattan ( 2006)

Criticism

• Florian F. Marzin on the grotesque: " The reader learns all this only through the eyes of the protagonist who is not the events undoubtedly objectively So there is a confusion of truth and glossing over the head of Coal, which is difficult if at all, too. is unraveling. one can never be sure if what tells us the protagonist, has one way or another, or not happening. everything is filtered through the mind of the narrator ... Patrick McGrath proves to be virtuous ruler of the language, his style is dense and crowded, and it is not easy despite the constellation of the plot manages to strike the reader in his or the spell of his protagonist. "

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• Author
• Briton
• Born in 1950
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