Higgins, Aidan | Jack Byrne (essay date spring 1983)
Jack Byrne (essay date spring 1983)
SOURCE: Byrne, Jack. “Note on Higgins' Ladies of Springfield House.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 3, no. 1 (spring 1983): 195-210.
[In the following essay, Byrne draws literary parallels between Higgins’s short story “Killachter Meadow” and his novel Langrishe, Go Down through a chronological study of the works’s protagonists.]
Fatal accidents like that keep recurring while the stoical Bolivians shrug their shoulders, resigned to it. Es la vida! What they mean is: It's death. I think it must be something like Spain. You've been to Spain?
Yes.
You liked … or perhaps no?
Yes, I like backward countries.
—Balcony of Europe
So do I!
—Jack Byrne
A careful reading of Higgins' “Killachter...
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