"The Novelist Is a Displaced Person": An Interview with William Golding

The Dionysian revival in American fiction of the sixties

“…Cf. Dick (1974), 159: "Myra Brcckinridge masquerades as comic art, yet if analyzed closely, it ends in tragedy. Myra never founds the matriarchy of her dreams, nor does she eradicate the vestigial remains of Rusty's manhood: she merely exposes his nature."…”

“…17. Dick (1965), 481. Roncace (1997), 38 modifies this interpretation by arguing (convincingly) that "both characters clearly reveal the Dionysian urge, the desire for the irrational and chaotic, but both feel the need to repress these longings."…”

“…72. On Vidal's use of Tyler, see Kaplan (1999), 578-79 and Dick (1974), 144--48. audience to do so as well. "It is easy for these young people," Myra observes of her students at the Academy in particular and of American young people generally, "to be anything since they are so plainly nothing, and know it.…”