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Lives of Quiet Desperation |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey |
| Author: Robert Cranny |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 3,213 Words, 18,065 Characters |
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There is a picture of William Trevor on the cover of the Penguin edition of his memory sketches, Excursions in the Real World. He is seen as a young man in a group. He is handsome, but the look on his face is a combination of anxiety and bewilderment. He appears as so many of his characters do, touched by the world and the circumstances that surround him but seeming unable to do anything to change them. Like his characters he plods on, looking, observing, noting, moving toward what life will bring him. He lives through his writing.
There is never a sense of determinism in Trevor's books. Circumstances evolve. Solutions are the culmination of heartbreak and disappointment. His world is still the same small, insular world that made him. There is a kind of control in his writing. He holds ...
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...ve to give him this: His characters are somehow transformed by what they experience, usually death itself, or what they fear in themselves. Or as Camus has shown us, the absurdity of the world is why we have to keep on going. When we come to terms with that, then we are truly free. Living by the world's terms and looking to find any peace truly is insane. Perhaps this is what Trevor is about.
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