Losing Battles Criticism

This Study Guide consists of approximately 90 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Losing Battles.
Related Topics

Losing Battles Criticism

This Study Guide consists of approximately 90 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Losing Battles.
This section contains 305 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Losing Battles Study Guide

Losing Battles appeared in 1970 to virtually unanimous praise from critics and is still praised today. New York Times critic James Boatwright called the novel "a major work of the imagination and a gift to cause general rejoicing." He continued:

Losing Battles is conclusive evidence of what many
have long believed: that Eudora Welty possesses the
surest comic sense of any American writer alive. It
is a comedy . . . that presents character without fake
compassion or amused condescension, a comedy that
releases, illuminates, renews our own seeing, that
moves in full knowledge of loss, bondage, panic, and
death.








Paul Bailey, in Times Literary Supplement, wrote that in this "exceptionally beautiful novel" Welty had outshone some of her foremost peers:

The prevailing tone is one of glorious ordinariness,
but one that never sinks into the terminally cute—pace
Our Town and the jottings of Brautigan,
Saroyan, and Vonnegut. The...


(read more)

This section contains 305 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Losing Battles Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Losing Battles from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.