The Field of Vision (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Memory, Authors or writers, Midwest, Reality, Mexico or Mexicans, Christmas, Bullfighting or bullfighters
- Locales: Mexico
The Field of Vision, like The Huge Season and The Inhabitants, reflects Morris's struggle with the past. In this book, however, he is less concerned with how one escapes the past than he is with how one confronts and conceptualizes it. One of the most sophisticated and intricate of Morris's novels, The Field of Vision employs multiple perspectives to capture, group, and explore scattered fragments of the lives of five Americans.
What Morris reveals through the primary voices in the novel is largely a vision of failure. Virtually all the main...
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