SOURCE: "A Welsh Joyce," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4701, May 7, 1993, p. 20.

In the following essay, a review of Selected Stories, Wroe offers a favorable assessment of the book—in spite of Evans's negative portrayals of his characters.

Caradoc Evans, who died in 1945 after a career as a draper, writer and journalist, gloried in his own description of himself as "the most hated man in Wales". John Harris, in his excellent introduction to this collection [Selected Stories] illustrates some of the ways this entirely accurate assessment manifested itself. He had, "his books suppressed, a play howled down in the West End, a radio talk banned by the BBC and a portrait on public display knife-slashed across the throat". It seems strange that someone who, comparatively recently, could arouse such strong feelings should today be virtually unknown. But his work leaves no doubt as to why he elicited these...