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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(review date 19 March 1995) In the following review, Silverblatt offers high praise for The Tunnel.] The Tunnel is the most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime. It took nearly...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 26 February 1995) In the following review, Kelly provides summary analysis of The Tunnel, which he describes as "an infuriating and offensive masterpiece."] If you want to go down into the self, you'd...
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From: Antioch Review[(review date Summer 1995) In the following review, Percesepe provides a summary of The Tunnel and comments on its critical controversy.] Having completed his magnum opus, Guilt & Innocence in Hitler's Germany, William...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date Spring 1995) In the following review, Moore offers high praise for The Tunnel.] I'm grateful that I lived long enough to see this. For nearly thirty years Gass has been publishing sections of The Tunnel...
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From: Washington Post Book World[(review date 12 March 1995) In the following review, Dirda offers positive assessment of The Tunnel.] Long awaited. Eagerly anticipated. Thirty years in the making. Such siren calls have sounded before--most recently...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Fall 1991) In the following essay, Stevick examines the significance of Gass's comments on his own work in light of his problematic insistence on the nonreferentiality of his texts. Stevick draws attention...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date Fall 1998) In the following review, Saltzman offers positive assessment of Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas.] William Gass regularly demonstrates how the artist's devotion is best measured by his...
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From: Artforum[(review date February 1997) In the following review, Lewis comments on Gass's literary aesthetic and offers positive evaluation of Finding a Form.] I happened to be passing through St. Louis one summer weekend in...
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From: The New York TimesBack in 1971, in his first collection of essays, Fiction and the Figures of Life, the philosopher-novelist William H. Gass laid down the law that “the esthetic aim of any fiction is the creation of a verbal world, or a...
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From: The Nation[(review date 20 March 1995) In the following review, Leonard offers favorable evaluation of The Tunnel, concluding that is "a splendid, daunting, loathsome novel."] Your wife is fat. Your penis is tiny. Your children...
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From: The Christian Science Monitor[(review date 6 March 1995) In the following review, Rubin offers unfavorable assessment of The Tunnel.] William H. Gass's first novel, Omensetter's Luck, was published in 1966. The Tunnel, his second full-length...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Fall 1991) In the following essay, Saltzman provides an overview of Gass's postmodern linguistic techniques and theoretical perspective.] William Gass builds sentences, sentences that are their own best...
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From: New York Review of Books[(review date 13 July 1995) In the following review, Menand provides a summary of The Tunnel and discusses the novel's problematic espousal of bigotry, hate, and amorality. According to Menand, the many biographic...
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From: New England Review[(essay date Summer 1997) In the following essay, Klein examines Gass's postmodern conflation of personal and national history, morality, and guilt associated with the horrors of Nazi Germany as presented through the...
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From: Into The Tunnel[(essay date 1998) In the essay below, Stewart traces parallels between Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and William Gass's The Tunnel, noting that both authors demonstrate faith in the power of art to save humankind's...