Big Black Good Man | The Art of Richard Wright
In the following excerpt from his The Art of Richard Wright, Margolies discusses Wright’s development as a writer, focusing on the thematic progression of Wright’s fiction.
Wright at his best was master of a taut psychological suspense narrative. Even more important, however, are the ways Wright wove his themes of human fear, alienation, guilt, and dread into the overall texture of his work. Some critics may still today stubbornly cling to the notion that Wright was nothing more than a proletarian writer, but it was to these themes that a postwar generation of French writers responded, and not to Wright’s Communism—and it is to these themes that future critics must turn primarily if they wish to reevaluate Wright’s work. . .
Wright not only...
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