March, William - Stanley Edgar Hyman (essay date 1943)
Stanley Edgar Hyman (essay date 1943)
SOURCE: A review of The Looking Glass, in The New Republic, Vol. 108, No. 6, February 8, 1943, pp. 187-8.
[In the following review Hyman extols The Looking Glass, and calls for a wider recognition of all March's work.]
It is about time someone “discovered” William March. True, there is a William March cult, but a man who has been writing for twelve years and has published six books that rank with the best American fiction being written should have something more than a cult and a quiet fame in the short-story anthologies. By now, March has explored his Alabama county almost as thoroughly as Faulkner has explored his Mississippi county, delved just as deeply into the recesses of the human personality, and come up with material fully as striking (if handled without Faulkner's somewhat excessive symbolism of horror).
The Looking Glass, March's fourth novel and his first...
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