In an essay called "Human, All Too Inhuman" on Zadie Smith's White Teeth, he criticized the "pursuit of vitality at all costs" in the "big, ambitious" novels of Pynchon, Wallace, and others, which he calls hysterical realism.
This man's wife wrote a novel about three Brown alumni living in New York named Danielle Minkoff, Marina Thwaite and Julius Clarke. This husband of the author of The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud, wrote an autobiographical novel called The Book Against God. He called one of his critical works a sustained argument with Barthes and Viktor Shlovsky, even though he also called those two people his "two favorite twentieth-century critics of the novel." That work connects Make Way for Ducklings and What Maisie Knew on the basis that they both allow us to inhabit juvenile confusion through the use of the free indirect style, which he discusses at length. This admirer of Saul Bellow, Chekhov and Flaubert is often criticized for his old-fashioned tastes. In an essay called "Human, All Too Inhuman" on Zadie Smith's White Teeth, he criticized the "pursuit of vitality at all costs" in the "big, ambitious" novels of Pynchon, Wallace, and others, which he calls hysterical realism. For 10 points, name this literary critic who wrote How Fiction Works.
This man's wife wrote a novel about three Brown alumni living in New York named Danielle Minkoff, Marina Thwaite and Julius Clarke.
James Wood