Blood Relations
J.I.M. Stewart, 1 December 1983
Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson
edited by Kerry McSweeny.
Secker, 303 pp., £15, August 1983,0 436 57610 4 Show More
edited by Kerry McSweeny.
Secker, 303 pp., £15, August 1983,
“... essays. Thus in the admirable book on Kipling there suddenly comes: ‘We owe great debts to Henry James, to Percy Lubbock, to F.R. Leavis, but we have moved away to use, if we wish, fable and word play and farce and alienation, innumerable dexterities of presentation, a wider range of depths and shallows than they allowed for, a consciousness that our new ... ”