ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes interviews Patrick McGrath about his forthcoming novel, which is set in Spain and deals with the legacy of the country’s civil war conflict of 1936–1939. In questions and responses that range—as McGrath’s novels range—across a number of periods and cultural contexts, the conversation both explores the author’s current interest in Spain, and embeds this project within the wider scope of his corpus, mapping connections between his present work and earlier English and American novels. As it does this, the chapter shows that links between these sites in McGrath’s literary imaginary often take shape in figures—like that of the ghost, for example—which are legible in gothic terms.
