William Goyen

Arcadio (1983)

Re-reading Goyen's final novel at this moment, more than 30 years after its publication, it seems to me that its great accomplishment is that it cares not at all if it offends. Goyen was never one to follow prevailing tastes, or to respect conventional notions of well-formed-ness. His language an...

The House of Breath (1999)