CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, January 1st, 1996
Steven Millhauser is the best fiction writer in creating miniature representations of reality with the goal of presenting life in a form that is easy to understand. Only that small portion of life that is controllable is shown and the uncertain and the unknown are excluded. Millhauser's art presents a way to escape from fearful reality. His fiction only superficially resembles reality. He brings the reader into a strange and unfamiliar world.
In an essay he calls "The Fascination of the Miniature," Steven Millhauser writes, "We inhabit a universe so utterly alien that to look steadily at that...
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