Adam Thorpe | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Adam Thorpe.
Related Topics

Adam Thorpe | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Adam Thorpe.
This section contains 812 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Review by Thomas Filbin

SOURCE: Filbin, Thomas. “Eurofiction, Interest Rates, and the Balance of Trade Problem.” Hudson Review 46, no. 3 (autumn 1993): 587-92.

In the following excerpt, Filbin discusses current trends in European fiction and praises Ulverton for its “encyclopedic knowledge” of historical details.

American fiction these days seems generally to have recovered from its bout with minimalism. Scorched earth prose which prefers epiphanies and resonances to themes and character exposition has largely run its course. Readers could only be expected to tolerate for so long antiheroes who dream of things that never were and ask, “Why bother?”, or who dream of nothing and say, “Turn the TV up, Rayette, ‘Wheel of Fortune's on.”

Novels being written by Americans now have advanced to somewhat higher ground. They often deal with family trouble, moving on or stepping back, and the burdens of one's history on the ability to live in the present. The book...

(read more)

This section contains 812 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Review by Thomas Filbin
Copyrights
Gale
Critical Review by Thomas Filbin from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.