Mark Helprin (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
“In the tunnels of contemporary American fiction,” Mark Helprin noted in 1988, “the moles are singing. They are singing in unison, they are singing to each other, and they are singing of darkness.” Against these literary moles, with their darkened vision, defeated characters, and bleakly ironic minimalist style, Helprin stands apart and largely alone: a writer wildly extravagant and overwhelmingly affirmative, a true believer in an art that is “consequential” and, as John Gardner has claimed, essentially “moral.”
Helprin, the son of immigrant parents, is...
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