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Tim O'Brien

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Critical Essay by Richard Freedman

326 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Richard Freedman By turns lurid and lyrical, "Going After Cacciato" combines a surface of realistic war reportage … with a deeper level—perhaps possible o... Read more

Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach

339 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach Going After Cacciato is, without reservation, one of the most challenging and powerful novels to find its way into print in some time. O'Brien's infantry... Read more

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Pochoda

571 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Pochoda Going After Cacciato borrows, for reasons not entirely clear to me, from the conventions of anti-war fiction as they are laid down in such books as A Farewell to Ar... Read more

Critical Essay by John Updike

526 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by John Updike As a fictional portrait of this war, "Going After Cacciato" is hard to fault, and will be hard to better…. (p. 130) [An] entirely different kind of g... Read more

Critical Essay by Celia Betsky

525 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Celia Betsky [Going After Cacciato] is a highly idealistic work and a surprisingly lyrical one, offering a grittily beautiful picture of a war none of the participants seem to suppor... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards

648 words, approx. 3 pages

Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards Toward its end, Going After Cacciato quotes from Yeats's "Meditations in Time of Civil War"—"We had fed the heart on fantasies, /... Read more

Critical Review by Robert Wilson

1,020 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review, Wilson favorably comments on O'Brien's realistic descriptions of war from a footsoldier's perspective in Going after Cacciato. Fantasies must have fed the... Read more

Critical Essay by James Griffith

8,135 words, approx. 28 pages

In the essay below, Griffith explicates the meanings of both the characters' actions and the narrative's events in Going after Cacciato by situating them in their historical context. Goi... Read more