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Avec la publication
du « Garçon boucher » Patrick McCabe
s'est assuré une solide notoriété en France.
« Breakfast on Pluto » est
très favorablement accueilli aux Etats-Unis, après
avoir connu le succès en Irlande et en Grande-Bretagne ;
le critique littéraire de l'Irish Times évoque
à son sujet la manière de Roy Lichtenstein et le
monde de Jérôme Bosh, le Sunday Observer
note l'influence consentie de Joyce et de Beckett ...
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DESCRIPTION : With wonderful delicacy and subtle
insight and intimation, McCabe creates Mr. Patrick « Pussy »
Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose
gutsy survival and yearning quest for love resonate in and drive
the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the troubles are
a distant and immediate echo and refrain. Twenty years ago, her
ladyship escaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her
foster mother Whiskers (prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney)
and her mad household, to begin a new life in London. There,
in blousey tops and satin miniskirts, she plies her trade, often
risking life and limb amongst the flotsam and jetsam that fill
the bars of Piccadilly Circus. But suave businessmen and lonely
old women are not the only dangers that threaten Pussy. It is
the 1970's and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast
as the critical mass of history builds up, and Pussy is inevitably
drawn into a maelstrom of violence and tragedy destined to blow
his fragile soul asunder. Brilliant, startling, profound and
soaring, Breakfast on Pluto combines light and dark, laughter
and pain, with such sensitivity, directness and restraint that
the dramatic impact reverberates in our minds and hearts long
after the initial impression.
❙ Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan,
Ireland, in 1955. He is the author of seven novels. He lives
in Sligo, Ireland, with his wife and two daughters.
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COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
- « Breakfast on Pluto », London : Picador, 1998
- « Breakfast on Pluto » traduit de l'anglais (Irlande) par Audrey Coussy, Paris : Asphalte, 2011
- « Le
garçon boucher », Paris : Plon (Feux
croisés), 1996 ; Paris : Union générale
d'éditions (10/18 domaine étranger, 2952), 1998
- « Le goret », Saint-Gély-du-Fesc : Espace 34 (Théâtre contemporain en traduction), 2012
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