Conversation in a train
Subtitle: and other critical writing
By: Frank Sargeson ; selected and edited by Kevin Cunningham.
Contributors: Cunningham, Kevin.
Publisher: Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Auckland; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "Frank Sargeson wrote fiction over almost half a century. During most of this time he also wrote occasional criticism. In form this varied from book reviews to imaginary dialogues, addresses at meetings or on the radio, opinions expressed in interviews. In subject matter he ranged widely, from appraisals of individual writers to mote general issues of literary form and content and the social milieu from which they arose. The relevance to his own fiction is usually apparent. Wriers considered include D.H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood and Olive Schreiner, besides fellow New Zealanders as Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Dan Davin, James Courage, Bill Pearson, Ronald Hugh Morrieson. He was particularly concerned with the societies which rew on the nineteenth-century European colonial frontiers, and with the writers they produced. All his opinions bear the unmistakeable mark of his own cast of mind. ..."--Book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography, p204-213. - Includes index.