Frederic Will’s Short Fiction: Literature as Social Critique

“There are at least two voices here, Reader. One voice is Don Quixote, the voice of the searcher for a language in which one can write poetry. The other is the voice of Sancho Panza the voice of the fictions. Reader, no wonder Shynnagh is upset and not a little confused by the writer he interrogates.” – Prof. Jerry Zaslove, Simon Fraser University

“The entire text-commentaries plus stories-forms a multi layered portrait of our time's social presence, and does so in a self-reflective structure itself representative of the consciousness of our time. This remarkable work belongs to a recent series of Shynnagh/Will works published by the Edwin Mellen Press.” – Prof. Jacinda Townsend, Southern Illinois University

“Here not only -as in M. C. Escher- does each hand draw the other, in addition, the drawing itself is drawn in what amounts to a meta-fiction, and a meta-critique, of Fiction Vs. Critique… A striking exploration: you will get nowhere with the present review if you have not read it first.” – Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes, Founding director,17, Institute of Critical Studies

Commendatory Foreword by Prof. Jerry Zaslowe
Hugh at Forty Two
Cherry Hill
The Centers
The Event
The Strange Bachelorhood of George Laughlin
Fidelity
Epilogue

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