%0 Journal Article
%T The Painting of the Urban Dreamscape in Patrick McGrath¡¯s Port Mungo
%A Magali FALCO
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2007
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.168
%X ¡°Black is the silence of the body after death, the close of life¡± (Wassily Kandisky, 1911) In Patrick McGrath¡¯s latest novel, Port Mungo, the artist¡¯s journey through various urban landscapes definitely gives shape to the maturing textual dreamscape that characterizes McGrath¡¯s fiction. In his first novel, The Grotesque, he explored the ¡°Gothicism¡± of the English countryside, then dug into ideas of the London urban landscape as a reflective setting for his characters¡¯ madness, in Spider and A...
%U http://erea.revues.org/168