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Herman Wouk
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Arnold Beichmans comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of Americas leading writers, shows how Wouks plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace. Situating Wouk in the same literary tradition as Cervantes, Richardson, Balzac, and Dickens, Beichman demonstrates that Wouks novels have strong plots, moralist outcomes, and active--essentially positive--characters. The new introduction serves to bring Wouks work over the past two decades into the reckoning.Making extensive use of Wouks personal papers and manuscripts as well as personal interviews with him, Beichmans focus is on the social and literary qualities of Wouks work. In particular, he examines eight novels including War and Remembrance and The Winds of War; The Traitor, one of his three plays; and two moral tracts on Judaism. Wouk has written four more novels, including his latest, A Hole in Texas, his twelfth.Beichman portrays Wouk as one of the few living novelists concerned with virtue, and sees his work as against the mainstream of contemporary American novelists. These, he argues, have eschewed such elements of the traditional novel as invention, coincidences, surprises, suspense, and a moral perspective more presumed than examined.
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