The Loved and the Lost (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Morley Callaghan
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Social commentary/allegory
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: Montreal, Canada
- Principal Characters: Jim McAlpine, Joseph Carver, Peggy Sanderson, Chuck Foley, Catherine Carver, Walter Malone, Wolgast, Elton Wagstaffe, Ronnie Wilson, Milton Rogers, Claude Gagnon, Henry Jackson
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Culture, Freedom, Self-discovery, Journalism or journalists, Racism, Blacks, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Music or musicians, 1940’s, Religion, Canada or Canadians, Publishing or publishers, Advertising
- Locales: Montreal, Canada
The Novel
Like several earlier novels by Morley Callaghan, particularly the important 1930’s works Such Is My Beloved (1934), They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935), and More Joy in Heaven (1937), The Loved and the Lost is both a realistic depiction of modern man’s quest for the self in the physical world and a symbolic study of the metaphysical conflict between the spiritual and the sensual.
At the center of this conflict in The Loved and the Lost is the protagonist, Jim McAlpine, a former professor of history, disillusioned with his...
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