Morley Callaghan (1903-1990), a Catholic writer from Toronto, set out to be a chronicler of the urban scene of his native city. He sought to be a realist, “looking at the appearance of things, call it concrete reality, the stuff of experience, or simply ‘what is out there’ ”; and to do this he had to “strip the language and make the style, the method, all the psychological ramifications, the ambience of the relationships, all the one thing, so the reader couldn’t make separations,” as he explained in his autobiographical volume, That Summer in Paris (1963).
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A Catholic writer's revolutionary realism
morley callaghan (1903-1990), a catholic writer from toronto, set out to be a chronicler of the urban scene of his native city. he sought to...
David Staines
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