SOURCE: "The Responsibility of the Novelist: The Critical Reception of Ship of Fools," in Criticism, Vol. VIII, No. 4, Fall, 1966, pp. 377-88.
In the following essay, Liberman examines the critical reception of Ship of Fools and considers the essential characteristics of the novel as a literary form.
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