Roddy Doyle

See also: Doyle

Roddy Doyle is a writer Irish born in May 1958 with Dublin. He wrote very popular novels all over the world but also of the plays and scenarios of cinema. Many are its books which were transposed successfully to the cinema. It grew in Kilbarrack, popular quarters located at the north of Dublin. It made its studies with the University College Dublin. After having spent a few years to teach English and the geography, it was completely devoted to the writing starting from 1993.

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Roddy Doyle uses the image of the Irish “négritude”, and more exactly of the " négritude blanche" when one of its characters, in the trilogy of Barrytown, declares I' m black and I' m proud . It thus exploits a comic effect (that of the " masque" black carried by a white man) while introducing a more political speech on the Irish social past (the colonial era) and the working topicality of the island. It thus seems to share the anti-colonial concerns of the Irish Nationalisme all while making some a comic thing. In other words, it posts its sympathy with the Irish working condition all while being played of a speech agreed upon on this one. Some critical wanted to see in this double approach a heritage of the style Joco-serious of James Joyce.

The novelist makes also an immoderate use of the oral Comique. While being based on the oral culture of the working districts of Dublin which it restores with brilliance, it seems to join again with the matter even Irish tradition: the popular Orality. However, the orality of its novels is in complete rupture with that which conveyed the thousand-year-old tradition of the island. Its contents and its form (one speaks there a believed language and problems involved in the modern society) more bring closer its speakers to a town civilization in permanent evolution and lack of reference mark. Although the language used is easily identifiable as being English of Ireland, it returns to one tormented present and completely detached of the so expensive tradition to a Irish Nationalisme which always privileged the country and patriotic values. In fact, it is by this unexpected return of orality that Roddy Doyle points out another tradition scorned a long time by Irish nationalism: that of the working city, to which it gives a new face, young person, cosmopolitan and made all the more long-lived as a corrosive humor is closely associated there.

Works

Novels

  • the trilogy of Barrytown
* The Commitments (1987, film 1991). A group of Dubliners young people, carried out by Jimmy Rabitte Jr, decides to form a drunk group of music in the tradition of James Brown.
* The Snapper (1990, film 1993). The sister of Jimmy, Sharon, is violated by a friend of her father and fall pregnant. She is given to keep the child but refuses to give the identity of the father to her family.
* The Van (1991, film 1997). The book was finalist for Booker Prize. The father of Jimmy is laid off at the same time as his friend Bimbo. They decide together to become merchants of fried in a van in the streets of Dublin.
  • Paddy Clarke ha ha ha (1993) Victorious of Booker Prize 1993. It is the history of a child of ten years in the streets of Dublin
  • the woman who knocked herself in the doors ( The Woman Who Walked Into Doors ) (1997) the life of a beaten woman tells which in spite of the violence of her husband defends it, using the excuse giving its name to the title of the work for exliquer its frequent blue. A work of a great sensitivity.
  • the legend of Henri Smart ( has Star Called Henry ) (1999) - the biography of an young man embarked in the insurrection of Easter in 1916 in Dublin.
  • Oh, Play That Thing! (2004)
  • Paula Spencer (2006)

News

  • Slavic The
  • Not Just For Christmas (1999)

Others

  • Rory and Ita

Collective works

  • Finbar' S Hotel , London, Picador, Dublin, New Island Books, 1997. In collaboration with Jennifer Johnston, Anne Enright, Dermot Bolger, Joseph O' Connor, Colm Toibin and Hugo Hamilton.

Theater

  • Brown Bread (1987)
  • War (1989)

Scenarios

  • Family (1994)
  • When Brendan Puts Trudy (2000)

Children's literature

  • The Giggler Treatment
  • Rover Saves Christmas
  • The Meanwhile Adventures

Studies on the author

  • Thesis of doctorate: Rewriting of the history in the novels of Roddy Doyle, Dermot Bolger and Patrick McCabe. Author: Alain Mouchel-Small valley, university of Rheims (2005)

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