![]() ![]() ![]() To regard her novels as imaginative versions of oral history is therefore not necessarily reductive, and isn't to deny them their power and vibrancy. There seems to be absolutely no scepticism about this process in Barker's fictional make-up - and this perhaps is what gives her work its undeniable integrity, while other mainstream novelists seem happy to be hailed as 'innovative' for flirting with techniques which the genuine avant-garde grew tired of decades ago. What remains constant, however, is their old-fashioned faith in the capacity of language, used with humility and intelligence, to act as a window upon reality. By this I don't mean that they never address themselves to complicated ideas, or fail to take account of complex emotional states - quite the contrary. ![]() S implicity and directness have always been the hallmarks of Pat Barker's novels. ![]()
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