Alan Lelchuk Biography

Some points about my fiction: A realism of extreme sensibilities and modernism of content … the intensity and ambiguity of the sensual life … a blurring of the line between the comic and the serious … vibrating the odd strings of obsession … character through sexuality, and sexuality as (native) social gesture … a mingling of lofty thought and contemporary vulgarity … playing out the deep comic disorders of our culture … some unnerving fables and comic myths of our time camouflaged by realistic garb and inhabited by real souls …

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