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Article: William Trevor's martyrs for truth.
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- January 1, 1997
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In a 1989 Paris Review interview, William Trevor speaks of his fascination with the focusing power of the story form: "I like the whole business of establishing its point," he states, "for although a story need not have a plot it must have a point" (Stout 143). The point in Trevor's stories appears to be of a moral nature. Indeed, one could call them "moral mysteries." His typical tale builds through a series of concealments and partial apprehensions, until, with details and identities established, moral truths, or more precisely, moral implications that emanate from truths, begin to resonate, forming the story's ending. But because he takes such pains to avoid the ...
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Article: William Trevor extends his mastery
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...Two Lives By William Trevor. Viking. $21.95. Those readers perceptive enough to consider William Trevor the reigning master of the modern ... begun this story at the beginning, William Trevor begins it near the end, in the mental ...
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