Moore, Brian (Vol. 8) - Moore, Brian 1921–
Moore, Brian 1921–
Moore is an Irish-born Canadian novelist living in the United States. Typically, his subjects are self-deceived outcasts in need of self-redemption. His study of a pathetic alcoholic spinster in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is outstanding, a minor classic of Canadian literature. Eschewing experimentation, Moore is esteemed for his ability to write convincingly of society's aliens and misfits in a conventional style. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 3, 5, 7, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
The Great Victorian Collection doesn't belong with Moore's finest work. There is too much the feeling of a good idea done to death; the transformation of the Collection into a commercial gimmick is not as funny as it might have been; and the influence of Borges is obtrusive. But the questions it asks about the nature of art and of reality are an inevitable development of the metaphysical preoccupation...
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