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 ...
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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 infa...
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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 A...
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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 ...
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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 suppo...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 Essay by Richard Freedman
