The South

The life story of a woman artist and two male artists who love her. They are all painters (and there is a lot about art and technique in the book). She loves one; the other love is unreciprocated even after the one she loves dies. I think of the book as structured in terms of parallels and opposites......more

Can anyone completely escape their past? Katherine Proctor, in 1950, leaves her native Ireland, her husband, her 10-year-old son, for a new start in Barcelona. She is an aspiring artist and finds a community of artists in her new location. Among those new friends are: Michael Graves, another Irish e......more

Even in Tóibín’s first novel he has already set out the tropes (I’m using that word in the kindest terms) that have made his novels such staples of modern Irish literature. We have a woman in distress, Katherine, who’s exiled herself to Barcelona in order to forget her past in Ireland. A keen painte......more

A thought experiment. 1) Take a Hemingway novel, one of the ones where ex-pats hang out and do crazy stuff in Europe. 2) Make the protagonist a woman. 3) Make the person whose sense of identity is largely lost because of a war not the protagonist but the protagonist's lover (although the protagonist......more

colm tóibín’in ilk romanıymış “güney”. 1990’da yayımlanan romanı can yayınları 97’de yayımlamış. zaten can 90’larda yurtdışında iyi kim varsa bulup basıyordu, öyle bir vizyon… ilk roman olarak gayet başarılı çünkü yani kim aynı romanda hem faşistlerce yönetilen ispanya’yı ve on yıl önceki ispanya iç......more