期刊名称：Estudios Irlandeses : Journal of Irish Studies
电子版ISSN：1699-311X
出版年度：2013
期号：8
页码：134-142
出版社：Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
摘要：In this interview Patrick McCabe sheds some light on his sources of inspiration and creative process as he talks about the evolution of his hometown, the stage adaptation of The Butcher Boy, and some major influences, such as the Gothic tradition. The growing importance of the latter turns his fiction into something darker and more sinister; a realm in which humour is non-existent, and evil omnipresent
