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Angela's Ashes Review

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November 17, 2014

 

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Peter Lenz approaches the memoir in terms of relevant motifs in the Irish literary tradition, with particular emphasis on 'the macabre, the grotesque, the tragicomical, [and]...the theme of the exile'. (1) He also investigates the 'resemblance' of narrative technique in McCourt's memoir 'to the Irish Oral Tradition and to how the seanchai, the oral story-teller, tried to drag the listener in to make him part of the story'...
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(2) In contrast, George O'Brien focuses, not on similarities between Angela's Ashes and preceding tradition, but on the ways in which the memoir exposes defects in the culture which it concerns. Paying particular attention to 'the twin powers of utterance and finality', O'Brien goes beyond a mere inventory of deficiencies to clarify their cumulative impact: 'From the sustained manner in which every area of Irish social life is revealed to be inadequate, repressive, discriminatory, and essentially inhumane, there emerges an exhaustive view of a humiliating collective failure...
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