A review by zachkuhn
The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell

4.0

Thoughtful and researched to within an ounce of its life-blood. Literary critics would do well if they knocked off the need to reference everything that has come before (I don't care if someone made the point before and you are making it but modifying it; very few writers who want their work to have any chance of being read can afford this luxury) and decided OH FINE I'LL GO TO HELL and just wrote about the damn books from their own perspective. As Jason Compson Jr said it best: Talking around whatever it was.

The chapter on Ellison was very helpful to my understanding of Invisible Man and Huck Finn.