Asylum (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Patrick McGrath
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1959-1960
- Setting: England and Wales
- Principal Characters: Stella Raphael, Max Raphael, Edgar Stark, Peter Cleave, Brenda Raphael, Charlie Raphael
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Adultery, Sculpting or sculptors, Hospitals, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Great Britain
- Locales: England, Wales
Upon the publication of Blood and Water and Other Tales in 1988, Patrick McGrath was hailed as the Edgar Allan Poe of the 1980’s, a postmodern gothicist whose stories of sex and guilt combined grotesquerie and campiness, the literally appalling and the deliciously excessive, in equal measure. In “The Black Hand of the Raj,” for example, a hand sprouts from the head of an Englishman in the Indian Civil Service and, before the eyes of his fiancé, strangles him. The novels that have followed (there has also been the 1991 anthology The New Gothic co- edited with Brad...
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