Jim Crace | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis & critique of Jim Crace.
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Jim Crace | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis & critique of Jim Crace.
This section contains 2,949 words
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SOURCE: Sansom, Ian. “Smorgasbits.” London Review of Books 23, no. 22 (15 November 2001): 13-14.

In the following review, Sansom considers the defining characteristics of Crace's fiction and describes The Devil's Larder as “a book of insights.”

According to Henry James, reviewing John Cross's life of George Eliot,

the creations which brought her renown were of the incalculable kind, shaped themselves in mystery, in some intellectual back-shop or secret crucible, and were as little as possible implied in the aspect of her life. There is nothing more singular or striking in Mr Cross's volumes than the absence of any indication, up to the time the Scenes of Clerical Life were published, that Miss Evans was a likely person to have written them; unless it be the absence of any indication, after they were published, that the deeply studious, concentrated, home-keeping Mrs Lewes was a likely person to have produced their successors.

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