Marilyn French | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Marilyn French.

Marilyn French | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Marilyn French.
This section contains 932 words
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SOURCE: Jones-Davis, Georgia. “Soup's On.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (27 February 1994): 12.

In the following review, Jones-Davis criticizes French's prose in Our Father, arguing that the novel is “too preachy and badly written to count as literature.”

Imagine if King Lear deserved the scorn of Goneril and Regan, and even that of kindly young Cordelia; if he had committed incest with them; and had fathered a fourth child with his humble servant (good sport at her making?); if the four sisters hated each other as much as they loathed their sire and found themselves locked in his castle together, there to watch the old man die, wondering who would inherit the throne.

The Lear of Marilyn French's new novel, [Our Father,] Stephen Upton, while never a president himself, is close to the seat of power, having been a presidential adviser and the intimate of people like the Reagans, Bush...

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