Proto-postcolonial? Angus Wilson and the languages of liberalism. From: International Fiction Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: MacKay, Marina | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Fiction Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery--a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. (1)

Sir Angus Wilson, novelist, critic, journalist, playwright, and professor, has always been seen as that very English figure: the all-round man of letters. In his novels of the fifties and sixties he minutely dissected the moral and psychological crises of the English middle classes, so his early seventies adventure in the global, postmo...

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