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Date Posted: 12:06:22 07/04/00 Tue
Author: noel treanor
Subject: Re: Finbar's Hotel
In reply to: Gisela Bonn-Wenzel 's message, "Re: Finbar's Hotel" on 02:07:50 05/04/00 Thu

> > Has anyone got any idea of which story Colm Tóibín
> has
> > written in Finbar's Hotel (devsied by Dermot Bolger)?
>
> Hi,
>
> My guess is that Colm Toibin wrote "Portrait of a
> Lady". I've just finished reading his new novel "The
> Blackwater Lightship" and when starting "Portrait of a
> Lady" it was more or less the same style of writing.
> Simple and somehow pure. I have not read books by all
> the other authors that contributed to Finbar's Hotel,
> but I tend towards the idea that the order of the
> stories in the book correspond to the alphabetical
> order on the cover of the book. But, of course, the
> authors might also have played a trick on the readers
> by adopting a style of another author so that we are
> all confused and wondering. By the way, what is your
> guess concerning which story is Toibin's one? Have you
> also read the "Blackwater Lightship"?
>
> Regards
> Gisela

Hi

I concur with gisella. I am reasonably sure that "portrait of a lady" is by toibin, precisely because of the style and structure. However I would be equally certain that the first story "benjy does dublin" is by roddy doyle, and the middle one, "the night manager" is by joe o'connor, for the same reason of style and structure. I have a broad reading of all three authors, though I wouldn't be sure of the other four. The night manager contains references to the work of roddy doyle (the character of the barman is intended to be a relation of charlo spencer, a deeply unsavoury character in his novel "the woman who walked into doors", while there is also a reference to judge eamon redmond, who we all know is the central character in toibin's best novel to date, "the heather blazing" A reference is also made in the same story to the singer, sinead o'connor, who happens to be joe o'connor's sister. she is referred to as a harridan (I think) and I doubt if any of the other authors would be so bold.

good luck with the website

noel

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