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The critical essays of V.S. Pritchett are unequalled for his or her wit, geniality, subtlety and deep good sense. His survey of writers amounts from Fielding and Smollett to Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Nathanael West and William Golding...from Balzac to Dostoevsky and Gorky, with wonderful detours for trivial information. Pritchett's commentaries are short and incisive and are written from the idea of view of the employed reader somewhat than from the specialized strategy of the scholar and formal analyst of literary structure. Not since Virginia Woolf's Common Reader and Edmund Wilson's Shores of Light has there been a collection of critical writings so designated by swiftness of thoughts, lucidity of expression and balance, and sanity of judgement. The effect is a revitalizing study of the novel, by way of a discerning and recognized copy writer whose special gift is to reveal new aspects of the greater novels and the reduced. Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was created over a toyshop in 1900 and, much to his everlasting distaste, was known as after Queen Victoria. A copy writer and critic, his is greatly reputed to be one of the best short story writers of all time, with the unusual ability to fully capture the incredible strangeness of day-to-day life. He passed on in 1997.
