Patrick McGrath (writer)

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Patrick McGrath at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival

Patrick McGrath (born February 7, 1950 in London ) is a British author whose work is assigned to the genre of the horror novel . Recurring themes are mental disorders , homosexuality and adultery . McGrath often makes use of the stylistic device of unreliable narration , that is: the statements of the (otherwise usually omniscient) narrator turn out to be partly wrong as the plot progresses.

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

Novels

  • The Grotesque (1989), German Grotesque (1990, translated by Brigitte Walitzek) - filmed by John-Paul Davidson, see The Grotesque
  • Spider (1990), German Spider (1992, translated by Brigitte Walitzek) - filmed by David Cronenberg , see Spider (film)
  • Dr Haggard's Disease (1993), German Dr. Haggard's Disease (1994, translated by Brigitte Walitzek)
  • Asylum (1996), German Stella (1997, translated by Brigitte Walitzek) - filmed by David Mackenzie in 2007 (not to be confused with the 1972 film of the same title)
  • Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution (2000)
  • Port Mungo (2004), German Port Mungo (2004, translated by Heidi Zerning)
  • Trauma (2008)
  • Constance (2013)

Short story collections

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

criticism

  • Florian F. Marzin about the grotesque : "The reader only experiences all of this through the eyes of the protagonist, who undoubtedly does not portray the events objectively. In Coal's head there is a confusion of truth and euphemism that is difficult, if at all, One can never be sure whether what the protagonist is telling us happened one way or the other or not at all. Everything is filtered through the mind of the first-person narrator ... Patrick McGrath proves to be a virtuoso ruler the language, his style is dense and compact, and despite the difficult constellation of the plot, he succeeds in captivating the reader or his protagonist. "

supporting documents

  1. ↑ See Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1991 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich, ISBN 3-453-04471-1 , p. 751 f.
personal data
SURNAME McGrath, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London