Larry McMurtry

Picaresque Novels and Novelists

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

The Spanish words picaresque and picaro achieved currency in Spain shortly after 1600. Today they are terms in literary criticism, sometimes misused because of the vague meaning attached to them. The revival of the genre in the twentieth century was… Read More ›

Analysis of Larry McMurtry’s Novels

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on February 18, 2019 • ( 1 )

Larry McMurtry’s (1936 -) best fiction has used the Southwest as its location and the characters typical of that area for its subjects. In the early years of his career, he dealt with life in the dying towns and decaying… Read More ›