Farrell, J(ames) G(ordon) | Farrell, J(ames) G(ordon) 1935–
Farrell, J(ames) G(ordon) 1935–
Farrell, a British novelist, was awarded the Booker Literary Prize for The Seige of Krishnapur.
[Troubles] offers endless information about minutiae. It almost never deals with an ambiguity or a subtlety that forces us to make some sort of interpretive choice while reading about a world of choices. Mr. Farrell does not give us a connotative experience; all is denotative. Without artfulness he interpolates history by means of excerpts from newspapers. The method is that of Hemingway's In Our Time, a vastly superior book that also concerns a troubled veteran seen against the background of a shaken postwar world. (p. 38)
Frederick Busch, in Saturday Review (copyright © 1971 by Saturday Review, Inc.; reprinted with permission), September 25, 1971.
The Siege of Krishnapur is an unfashionable, understated, and utterly accomplished...
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