Studies in Short Fiction, March 22nd, 1993
I can remember having wondered, while in graduate school in the early 1960s, "What is so awful about William Saroyan?" Philip Rahv (included here) had provided an answer based on a convenient overlapping of Marxist and Formalist aesthetics. There was, furthermore, the Original Sin of Saroyan's popularity. Later I would see how Saroyan violated such creative writing workshop fetishes as the limited and consistent point of view. I was never, however, to forget how much I had enjoyed him before I listened to his critics.
Now Edward Halsey Foster's entry in Twayne's always useful "Studies in Sh...
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