V.S. Pritchett (Sir Victor since 1975) is the century's consummate author: His six decades of crafting exquisite prose in so many literary venues have rendered him peerless. Ironically, however, his remarkable versatility--he's written five novels, numerous volumes of travel writing, two s...

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1. Verfasser:	Stinson, John J. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Twayne u.a. 1992
Schriftenreihe:	Twayne's studies in short fiction 37
Schlagworte:	Pritchett, V. S <1900-1997> > (Victor Sawdon) > Criticism and interpretation Pritchett, Victor S. > 1900-1997 Fiction > Technique Short story Kurzgeschichte
Zusammenfassung:	V.S. Pritchett (Sir Victor since 1975) is the century's consummate author: His six decades of crafting exquisite prose in so many literary venues have rendered him peerless. Ironically, however, his remarkable versatility--he's written five novels, numerous volumes of travel writing, two superb volumes of autobiography, several biographies, and nine collections of literary criticism--has tended to overshadow his achievement in a fiction genre he has helped to define and refine. To fellow writers Eudora Welty and William Trevor, and critics Frank Kermode and Walter Allen, V.S. Pritchett is the great English short-story writer of our time. In V.S. Pritchett: A Study of the Short Fiction, John J. Stinson suggests that the 1980s renewed interest in the short story will encourage a long-overdue comprehensive appraisal of Pritchett's contribution to this form Stinson's thorough chronological survey of Pritchett's stories intertwines commentary about the writer's developing skill, his characteristic themes and techniques, and the pros and cons of his narrative styles with a discussion of the individual stories. Stinson's portrait of the artist shows a subtle humorist and a revealer of truth through ironies. "The short-story writer's duty is to destroy generalization," Pritchett has said, and Stinson finds this creed practiced throughout Pritchett's work, manifest in the writer's knack for uncovering buried or half-buried character traits Pritchett gives his readers characters who, according to Stinson, "are both remarkably individuated and clearly representative." Rarely in his 17 story collections--among them You Make Your Own Life (1938), The Sailor, Sense of Humor, and Other Stories (1956), The Saint and Other Stories (1966), Blind Love and Other Stories (1969), The Camberwell Beauty and Other Stories (1974), and the 82-tale Complete Collected Stories of 1991--has Pritchett's ear for the everyday speech of the English, high class and low (and particularly the low), failed him
Beschreibung:	XVII, 149 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0805783415