The Houseguest | Related Titles
The novel in the Berger canon which The Houseguest most resembles is Neighbors, both in its concern for America's obsession with bad manners and in the gradual development of a highly surrealistic situation. The Houseguest provides credible motivations for its characters and returns to the credibility of realism at its conclusion, while Neighbors is an absurdist morality play on a high literary level.
Characterizations in The Houseguest also recall other Berger novels. Doug Graves is a more memorable version of Blaine Raven, Carlo Reinhart's snobbish,...
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