Callaghan, Morley (Vol. 3) - Callaghan, Morley 1903–
Callaghan, Morley 1903–
Callaghan, a Canadian novelist, writes imaginative fiction often informed by Christian principles. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
The Canadian Morley Callaghan, at one time well known in the United States, is today perhaps the most unjustly neglected novelist in the English-speaking world….
The novels of Morley Callaghan do not deal … with his native Canada in any editorial or informative way, nor are they aimed at any popular taste, Canadian, "American" or British. They center on situations of primarily psychological interest that are treated from a moral point of view yet without making moral judgments of any conventional kind, and it is in consequence peculiarly difficult to convey the implications of one of these books by attempting to retell its story. The revelation of personality, of tacit conflict, of reciprocal emotion is conducted in so subtle a way that we are never quite...
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