Crossing the Border between Reality and Fiction in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman

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Anghel, F. (2010). Crossing the Border between Reality and Fiction in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, 8(1), 99-106. Retrieved from http://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/197
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Title

Crossing the Border between Reality and Fiction in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman

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Author

Florentina, Anghel

Journal

Philologia

Volume
Issue

1

Start page

99

End page

106

ISSN

1820-5682

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URL

http://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/197

Date

2010-2021/11/08/10:51:37

Abstract

Martin McDonagh is a contemporary British writer with Irish parents and his play The Pillowman unrolls in an unidentifiable totalitarian setting, tackling problems related to author-work-reader relationship. The paper focuses on reality-fiction interaction at the level of the process of creation and on the impact of the work of art on the readers. McDonagh’s play is a warning against the influence the audience may have on the writer and against the impulses a work of art raises in a reader, presenting the entire process as a cyclic movement having reality as a starting point and return to reality.

Keywords

border-crossing