At one point, late in the novel, Stern sees that "The walls were closing in on Dixon, as on some Poe character. . . ."
In its revelation of the dark secrets embedded in families, The Burden of Proof may be an echo of a work like "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839). The tortured family conflicts in the novel have their literary roots as far.....
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