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Mavis Gallants stylistic brilliance, assured narrative control, and challenging technique firmly resist "de-authorization. ...
In Gallants fictive creations, irony arises from what the characters ostensibly know and what we, as readers of those characters lives, actually know; yet Gallant also imposes external constraints on her readers, effectively limiting their agency. Having positioned her readers thus, Gallant appears to invite them to become her truly privileged audience. ... " Yet even here, the dialogue comes close to a monologue, with Gallant doing much of the talking and the readers doing much of the nodding. ...
Gallant describes how these knots are further tightened by things such as obstinacy or wilfulness, thus exposing phenomena such as what she has called fascisms "small possibilities in people. ... Gallant invites the reader to become entangled in story while, simultaneously, breathing in the air of aesthetic achievement. ...
Yet the key to evading the fate of the characters would appear to lie in spanning the "distance" between oneself and Gallants seemingly disinterested narrators, to accept the knot as something given, and move to an aesthetic appreciation of how Gallant has orchestrated the readers participation by including her or him in the narrative wherein the reader is forced to judge and become a moral agent.
Approximate Word count = 715
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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