Edited sentence: It seems evident from the pessimism at the close of both Candyland and Daughter, as well as the advancement of Buddhistic emotional detachment as a "solution" for the embattled artist in Stet, that Chapman's relationship to his own career and audience is an increasingly troubled one.On the other hand, the enlightened character of Stet could be seen as Chapman's having found a way to come to terms with whatever pressures he seems to feel.The novels, as ambitious as some of them are, remain almost unknown despite some critical praise, and this could be a source of the strange alienation in the work (which seems to increase as one reads the books in chronological order)