Studies in European Fiction

About the Book

The essays in this book, done at various times in recent history, appear herein unchanged. The introduction serves as provenance, apologia, register of afterthoughts-updatings and criticisms. Readers will surely admire given essays more than others, but any reader will have to acknowledge that in toto these essays are the end product of extensive scholarly spadework and, in the main, critical exactitude. Besides the Dostoevsky duo, there are dual comparative essays, the first an influence study and the second an affinity study. The Dickens and Kafka essays are samples from extensive work on Our Mutual Friend and Kafka’s oeuvre.

About the Author

Paul John Green was born in 1936 in Seattle, Washington, and is now an independent critic and scholar in comparative literature, emergent creative writer, and armchair activist residing in Eugene, Oregon. He has co-edited one book and edited another, and is the author of The Life of Jack Gray: An Education in Living and in Love, The Song of Eugene with Translations from the Poetry of Heinrich Heine and Rene Char, a number of limited-edition scholarly books and minibooks, articles, notes, reviews, bibliographies, letters, other poems, and an abstract. And he is increasingly moving into non-belleletristic terrain.