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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien | |
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 Going After Cacciato is a war novel written by author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1979, this complex novel is set during the Vietnam War and is told from the point of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin. The story...
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 CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by James Griffith
8,135 words, approx. 27 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.
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Critical Review by Robert Wilson
1,020 words, approx. 3 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.
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Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards
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Toward its end, Going After Cacciato quotes from Yeats's "Meditations in Time of Civil War"—"We had fed the heart on fantasies, / The heart's grown brutal from the fare." The words are said in a fantasy-scene, by a character who exists only in another character's mind, and it seems an apt motto for a novel about private dreaming in the midst of the public disaster of Vietnam…. [Going After Cacciato] goes well beyond mere disillusionment about wa...
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