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Critical Essay by H. Winston Rhodes
[This excerpt is part of an essay which was originally published in Landfall in 1955.]
New Zealand criticism has been chiefly concerned with the vain and unrewardin...
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Critical Essay by Ian Reid
I do think that because of its attenuated quality—whether deliberate or not—Joy of the Worm falls between two stools. Material that might have made a fine sket...
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Critical Essay by H. Winston Rhodes
['Man of England now'] consists of three short novels, each of which is more involved and more suggestive than a bare summary of its episodic plot wou...
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Critical Essay by H. Winston Rhodes
[Apart] from its intrinsic merits and continued relevance to enduring human habits, I Saw in My Dream has considerable historical value for those who wish to trace ...
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Critical Essay by Ray Copland
This exploration of his own formative years [Once is Enough] is conducted by Sargeson with a smiling ease made possible not only by his complete assimilation of the mater...
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Critical Essay by Patrick Evans
It is hard to know where to begin praising this little memoir [More Than Enough]. I think it will be read for two important reasons—for its accounts of the many ...
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Critical Essay by Lydia Wevers
Reading Sunset Village I was reminded of D'Arcy Cresswell's reaction to Sargeson's first book Conversation With My Uncle when it appeared in the mid...
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Critical Essay by R. A. Copland
A very high proportion of Sargeson's [earliest] stories are told in the first person. The degree to which the narrator is aware of the implication of what he tel...
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Critical Essay by Peter Campbell
Frank Sargeson's third volume of memoirs [Never Enough!] is subtitled 'Places and People Mainly'—but the choice is in no way random. Lookin...
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Critical Essay by Bruce King
In a colonial situation where English middle-class social values are inappropriate, the first really believable characters in fiction are usually the eccentrics and outcas...
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Critical Essay by Murray S. Martin
[Frank Sargeson] shows a refined sensitivity of ear and a careful precision in writing, qualities that enhance his ability to portray the society he knows. No biogra...
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Critical Essay by E. H. Mccormick
If one speaks of art in reference to contemporary New Zealand fiction, that is largely due to the achievement of Frank Sargeson. More than two decades have now passed...
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Critical Essay by William Trevor
Frank Sargeson's Collected Stories really are worth reading. Unlike so many of his Australian neighbours, Mr Sargeson, a New Zealander, eschews the Wild West fi...
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Critical Essay by Edwin Morgan
Frank Sargeson's Collected Stories are perhaps dangerously recommended if one calls them distinctive sketches of New Zealand life and character. But these extreme...
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Critical Essay by Norman Levine
Sargeson's material is that of growing-up in the depression years in New Zealand. He writes in a colloquial style that, despite its simplicity, I found mannered,...
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Critical Essay by David Craig
Memoirs of a Peon, set in New Zealand early this century, works by creating a character in the first person through a highly idiosyncratic style. The reader is apt to con...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury
Memoirs of a Peon is a frank and a literary re-creation of the traditional picaresque novel….
Frank Sargeson lives in and writes about New Zealand, and perhap...
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Critical Essay by Ian Reid
As in much of his work, Frank Sargeson [in The Hangover] directs his unblinking but not uncompassionate eye towards an adolescent struggling to reconcile the disturbing fact...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Raban
While the Great War goes on, and wives desert and die, a father and son, deep in the New Zealand 'backblocks,' exchange letters in the style of Gibbon, H...
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Critical Essay by H. Winston Rhodes
