![]() ![]() “It offers us close analysis, like a headphone we can clamp on at the U.N. Criticism tries to solve the mystery, by translating fiction into another language. She pursues this theme in “Words Into Fiction": The writer does not seek to solve the “mystery of language” but rather to take advantage of it. CFriucat analysis, she writes in “Writing and Analyzing a Story,” has to travel backward toward a vanishing point “beyond which only ‘influences’ lie.” The writer is bound in the opposite direction and “works into the open" to write fiction is to make a journey without maps. They are, she seems to suggest, essentially at cross‐putposes. IN this invigorating selection of her reviews and essays, Eudora Welty constantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet. ![]()
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