Gilbert Sorrentino | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis & critique of Gilbert Sorrentino.

Gilbert Sorrentino | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis & critique of Gilbert Sorrentino.
This section contains 1,630 words
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Gilbert Sorrentino is a veteran poet who began publishing fiction just about when critics were announcing its demise. The Sky Changes (1966), Steelwork (1970), Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (1971), [and] Splendide-Hotel (1973) … are examples of the novel's renaissance, as it turns from an attempt to capture life through belief-suspending conventions back to-ward the truths which those conventions slight. (p. 154)

Sorrentino sees time as the enemy … and seeks the same actuality beyond it, but without abandoning the novel. Revealing images are well expressed in shorter forms, but life is large, its truths are larger still, and it would be a shame to sacrifice the novel's great scope simply because its methods have been abused. "In the mind there is a continual play of obscure images which coming between the eyes and their prey seem pictures on the screen at the movies," Sorrentino quotes from William Carlos Williams as the epigraph to Imaginative...

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This section contains 1,630 words
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