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Critical Essay by Jonathan Baumbach
[Wallant's novels] are dark visions of disquieting, often apocalyptic seriousness, haunting, desolating books about the improbable possibilities of redemptio...
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Critical Essay by Thomas M. Lorch
[Wallant] pushes aside the glittering surfaces of modern society to write of the terror, suffering and mystery buried within. [The Human Season] describes one man�...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Ayo
The human body in Wallant's world is a scandal. Mankind is portrayed in pain and ugliness, in the humiliation of a body that sweats, smells, runs over from glands...
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Critical Essay by Robert W. Lewis
[Wallant] achieves the dramatic by skirting the melodramatic; his characters tend to be drawn in outline or reduced to a few essential traits; his symbolism tends to ...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Baumbach
