Mythes, Croyances et Religions du Monde Anglo-Saxon (Avignon),
vol. VII, 1989, p. 113--124.
Anne Foata
Andrew Lytle, écrivain de la tradition
Abstract.
Andrew Lytle's fiction is solidly anchored in the historical and
geographical reality of his region. But it is also attuned to his vision
of the decline of the western world, of which America is a part. In a
secularized world, the artist's task is to fashion the perfect artifact
that fuses form and imagination in the image of God's Creation. Lytle
opposes the kind of fiction in which mere sensations prevail and the
author's ``ego is turned loose. without the thread of direction, in the
unconscious, the near conscious and consciousness itself,'' as he wrote in
his essay with the telling title: ``The Hero with the Private Parts.''
anne2.foata@wanadoo.fr
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