The Dead Republic, by Roddy Doyle: The Wisdom of Comic Heroism
Roddy Doyle is a writer who has reflected that human existence is an interplay between comedy and tragedy, and that therefore all kinds of evils—fanaticism, absolutism, dogmatism—result from cultivating only the tragic perspective. This becomes obvious in The Dead Republic (2010), a novel in which...
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Universidad de Valladolid
2018-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/2431 |