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Fiction in Review
Trilling, Diana | October 2, 1943 issue

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In her latest collection of short stories, "The Wide Net," Eudora Welty has developed her technical virtuosity to the point where it outweighs the uses to which it is put and her vision of horror to the point of nightmare. Of course even in her earlier work Welty had a strong tendency toward stylism and "fine" writing. She liked to move toward the mythical and she had a heart for decay and an eye for the Gothic in detail. But she also had a reliable and healthy wit, her dialogue could be as normally reportorial of its world as the dialogue of Ring Lardner.

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WIDE Net, The (Book); SHORT stories; WELTY, Eudora, 1909-2001; STYLE, Literary; GOTHIC literature; BOOKS
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