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William H. Gass (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Chiefly a writer of novels, William H. Gass is also the author of a book of short stories entitled In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories (1968) and four volumes of essays about literature. In the chief of these, the collections entitled Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970) and The World Within the Word: Essays (1978), Gass illuminates his own work as a writer of fiction. He prefers novels, as his essay “Imaginary Borges and His Books” suggests, which render fictional worlds which are highly contrived metaphors...

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