Hall’s influence was perhaps greater as a teacher than a writer himself.
Racers to the Sun and Us He Devours, by James B.He creates a character who is haunted by all the contemporary threats to human meaning, puts him into the most stereo-typed situation possible–and proceeds to demonstrate that his dilemma is the stuff of fiction.” The author raises no argument against the banality of middle-class activities, and emphasizes the degree to which words themselves can become but a series of cliches established by a person as protection against communication with self or another. Accepting that there may be no such thing as a clear human identity, he agrees with the view that human relationships are likely to be without point. Writing in Saturday Review, James McConkey saw it as proof of the value of fiction in a time when its purpose was widely being questioned: “In A Married Man, DeMott takes as a fictional premise all the arguments that have been raised to prove that the novel as a genre has lost its relevance.
A Married Man, by Benjamin DeMott DeMott was best known during his lifetime as a cultural critic and prolific book-reviewer, but this, his second novel, was well-received when it came out.Caligari, along with others from Kingsley Amis, Gore Vidal, Iris Murdoch, and Thomas Berger.īut there are also a fair number of books that have since been swepted under the rug and forgotten, and I wanted to take a few minutes to mention some of these, in hopes that one or more will catch the interest of a by-passer and be rediscovered. There are now-well-established titles such as William Gass’s Omensetter’s Luck, Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City, and Donald Barthelme’s Come Back, Dr. I was intrigued by the list of titles reviewed by Cassill, primarily for the New York Times and Book World, between 19, as it provides a wide survey of the fiction of that time. Cassill, whose pulp fiction I’ve covered over the last year, December magazine included an extensive bibliography of Cassill’s works. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.In its 1981 tribute to R.
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