Farrell, James T(homas) (Vol. 4) | Farrell, James T(homas) 1904–
Farrell, James T(homas) 1904–
Farrell is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Considered a leading practitioner of contemporary American realistic fiction, Farrell is best known for his trilogy, Studs Lonigan. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Self-education comes high in America, and Farrell has paid for it—as in differing respects did Faulkner and Hemingway—with his whole career. Its cost to him consists in the fact that the attitudes it has given him are largely provincial; the morals are parochial; and the modes are pedantic, for it appears to be the case with the self-educated literary man in America that he tends always to confuse learning and pedantry and that in pursuing the one he will caricature the other….
It becomes clear in reading over the prose in [Reflections at Fifty] that Farrell went to school, but it is just as clear that he went to school to the wrong...
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