Michener's fiction than anything written by the critical brotherhood. This thoughtful self-analysis is a better explanation of Mr. In almost every respect my dalliance with opera has influenced my understanding of the problems of art." For example, my love of the operatic aria has encouraged me to allow my characters to declaim at length when a brief speech might be more effective, and my enormous respect for the great duets tempts me to have two characters speaking to each other just a bit longer than the literary scene would warrant. I have been damaged, in some ways, by my fixation on opera, for it has helped to delude me into seeing human experience in a more dramatic form than facts would warrant it has edged me always closer to romanticism and away from reality it has made me a confirmed liberal when saner men, pondering the objective record, tend to be pessimistic conservatives and it has encouraged me toward artistic conventions that I might have done well to avoid. Michener's captivating new memoir, "The World Is My Home," which could be described as a craftsman's autobiography, is this highly revealing statement: The World Is My Home A Memoir By James A.
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