The danse macabre: the fiction of J.P. Donleavy and Henry Miller

Authors

  • Peter James Harris State University of São Paulo (UNESP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v8i0.3718

Keywords:

J.P. Donleavy, Henry Miller, Death.

Abstract

The work of two writers, J.P. Donleavy and Henry Miller is compared. It is argued that the anarchic behaviour of the characters in the fiction of both writers is in defiance of the void they perceive to be at the centre of things, an exuberance in the face of death, a danse macabre.

Author Biography

  • Peter James Harris, State University of São Paulo (UNESP)

    PETER JAMES HARRIS lectures in English Literature and English Culture at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil. Born in London
    he has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Irish Studies from the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2004 he published Sean O’Casey’s Letters and Autobiographies: Reflections of a Radical Ambivalence (Trier: WVT). He has also published articles on twentieth-century Irish playwrights, as well as a paper on Roger Casement’s 1910 Amazon expedition. He has recently completed a post-doctorate at Royal Holloway University of London, researching into the presence of Irish dramatists
    on the London stage in the period from Independence to the present day.

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Published

2006-06-17

Issue

Vol. 8 (2006): ABEI Journal 8

Section

Fiction

How to Cite

Harris, P. J. (2006). The danse macabre: the fiction of J.P. Donleavy and Henry Miller. ABEI Journal, 8, 63-77. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v8i0.3718