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- Title
Walter Abish's Fictions: Perfect Unfamiliarity, Familiar Imperfection.
- Authors
Martin, Richard
- Abstract
This article focuses on writer Walter Abish's Fictions. Abish, who was born in Vienna in 1931, spent the formative years of childhood and adolescence in Shanghai, then eight years in Israel, and finally settled in New York City, where in 1960 he became an American citizen. In his writing, a collection of poems, two novels, and two books of short fiction, he has retained an affinity for things European and for the literature of the German-speaking world. This may well be the foundation of the "cool" side of his work, which is associated with precision, accuracy, and clarity.
- Subjects
ABISH, Walter, 1931-2022; LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVELISTS; IMPRESSMENT; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 1983, Vol 17, Issue 2, p229
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875800017357