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词条 Ripley Bogle
释义

  1. Plot introduction

  2. Reception

  3. Stage adaptations

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Ripley Bogle is the debut novel of Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1989 in the UK although not until 1998 in the US.[1] Written when he was 26 it is arguably his most acclaimed,[2] winning the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards the following year.[3] Many elements of the novel are autobiographical; the author himself was born in Belfast, attended Cambridge University, dropped out and became homeless.[4] It is regarded as a significant novel, producing "both a re-evaluation of Northern Irish literary identity, and an alternative perspective on the Troubles."[5]

Plot introduction

The novel is set over four days in London, where homeless 22-year-old Ripley Bogle aimlessly wanders the streets and, with angry satire, reflects on his life, directly addressing the reader. There are frequent flashbacks to growing up on the Turf Lodge estate in West Belfast during The Troubles, his move to Cambridge University and his subsequent decline into homelessness.[6]

Reception

  • "An astonishing performance, fluent, profound, angry. It made me laugh; it made me think; it made me envious." – The Irish Times[7]
  • "Ripley Bogle is probably one of the best Irish novels to have appeared in the last decade. It goes straight for the jugular." The Times[7]
  • Zachary Leader in the London Review of Books compares the lead character novel to John Self and Charles Highway in Martin Amis's Money and The Rachel Papers: "Ripley Bogle isn't as good a novel as The Rachel Papers, let alone Money, but its author has talent and nerve". He goes on to say "Wilson is a writer worth watching – for all the present novel's indebtedness and clamouring, bumptious self-regard."[8]
  • Liam Callanan in the New York Times writes "The shadow of Ulysses looms large throughout the novel, since Bogle's wisecracking ramblings around London over the course of a long weekend draw a clear parallel to Bloom's wanderings through Dublin, almost to the point of parody." and concludes "By detailing the painful minutiae of homeless existence with aching accuracy, Bogle succeeds in making the impersonal hostility of street life in London seem almost as cruel as the intimate terror of Belfast. He is unsettlingly deadpan in his descriptions of one horrific episode after another, but making readers uncomfortable seems to be precisely Wilson's aim. What better way to evoke a world of senseless, skittish violence than to disconcert the reader with a challenging – and puzzling – narrator? And what better way to leave the reader truly puzzled than by tossing in a series of gratuitous twists at the end of the novel?"[9]

Stage adaptations

It was adapted for the stage in 1997 at Theatre503 when it was directed by Richard Hurst[10] and again in 2005 when adapted by actor Sean O Tarpaigh (at Camden People's Theatre).[11][12]

See also

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References

1. ^ReadingGroupGuides.com – Robert McLiam Wilson interview
2. ^Robert McLiam Wilson biography
3. ^http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/ripley-bogle/9780749394653
4. ^The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction Volume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction : McLiam Wilson, Robert by Matthew McGuire
5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=26AgoZ4TiGkC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=ripley+bogle+falls+road&source=bl&ots=m4pfyI4oOd&sig=_B0QCjjth_t8eYjIHjjZaqimtxk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RC2lUKb9JbCayQHY3oHYAg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=ripley%20bogle%20falls%20road&f=false The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 by Dominic Head, pages 139–140 Google Books]
6. ^"Writing the North – The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland", by Laura Pelaschiar
7. ^1 For my money, Robert McLiam Wilson has written the best novel to come out of Northern Ireland in the last 30 years
8. ^Zachary Leader reviews Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
9. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/reviews/980517.17callant.html Bad Scenes in Belfast and London]
10. ^UK Theatre Web
11. ^The Stage review
12. ^Ripley Bogle Verdict: Homeless man drama

External links

  • [https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wilson-ripley.html Chapter One online]
  • Reading group guide
  • The Unreliable Ripley: Irony and Satire in Robert McLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle by Elke D'hoker

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