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Joseph Heller

Robert Merrill

出版	Twayne Publishers, 1987
主題	Literary Criticism / American / General
ISBN	08057749209780805774924
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r9paAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In this book, Merrill discusses the structure and theme of every Heller novel and play, and offers a number of original interpretations of Heller's writing. Merrill argues that too much has been made of the Jewishness of the two more recent novels, Good as Gold and God Knows. He adds that they are better understood as humanistic rather than sectarian novels. Merrill sees Heller as an isolated artist who has been influenced by few earlier writers and who has, in turn, exercised little influence on his contemporaries. Heller is portrayed by Merrill as writing in a vein of black humor that recalls Dostoevsky and Kafka rather than any more recent writers. ISBN 0-8057-7492-0: $17.95.