![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of Bible and Bread." 3 The Wiebes lived first in southern Saskatchewan and then moved to the Usually farmers, Mennonites haveīeen pioneers, living in small communities, often working rough terrain and existing "chiefly on a fare Part of the emigration of Mennonites who, since the sixteenth century, have gradually wanderedĮastward through Europe and Asia to North and South America. His parents came to Canada from the U.S.S.R. ![]() If only to see how he has digested diverse influences and used them to give his novels vigorous and Therefore we are justified in snooping into Wiebe's life When you are most profoundly yourself you are no longer yourself." 2 Personal traits are assimilatedĪnd transformed into a well-crafted fiction. Paradoxically, a writer is mostįully present in his work when he completely effaces himself or as he says: "as a writer, writing, To a background, especially one as unique and forceful as Wiebe's. Without being autobiographical, they will testify With the passions and preferences of their authors. However, he would agree that even in their independence, they can be suffused Surroundings and digestion while he was writing." 1 In contrast, Wiebe insists that novels "acquireĪ life and character of their own, independent of and quite beyond the artist himself" ( VL, 40). Rudy Wiebe has mocked the "personal fallacy" in literary criticism, which "sees every work of art asĪrising directly out of the artist's experience" and sanctions "a great deal of snooping" into his "life, ![]()
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