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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on June 22, 1993. The length of the article is 3256 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: William T. Vollmann's narrative technique combines the intratextual maneuvers of the metafictionist with the sincerity of 19th-century authors such as Trollope and Dickens. He gains the trust of the reader by claiming to be a witness, rather than a creator, of the events he portrays. By combining New Journalism with the aesthetic flare of Poe, Vollmann is able to manipulate a work without causing the narrative voice to become suspect. The result is a relationship of good faith between reader and writer.

Citation Details
Title: Where an author might be standing. (on William T. Vollmann)
Author: Madison Smartt Bell
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1993
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v13Issue: n2Page: p39(7)

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