The Review of Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 2003
That time, that place, was it all your own invention, that you shared with me? And I too perhaps was your invention.
--Aidan Higgins, Helsingor Station and Other Departures
More than thirty years ago Aidan Higgins indicated that all of his work followed his life, "like slug trails ... all the fiction happened" (Higgins, "Writer in Profile" 13), a comment that implies much more than autobiographical admission. In his earliest fictions, Felo de Se and Langrishe, Go Down, his birthplace, Springfield House, Celbridge, is a recurring setting, and Higgins was also to later acknowledge in his tri...
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