TY - JOUR
TI - William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice: Can “faults” become assets?
AU - Mazur, Zygmunt
TI - William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice: Can “faults” become assets?
AB - 
	The article examines critical responses to Styron’s controversial novel Sophie’s Choice, and argues that precisely those aspects of the novel that have been the most severely criticized – the sudden changes in narrative technique, the mixing of different genres, the parallels between Poland and America, the comparisons between a slave plantation and a concentration camp, as well as the use of atypical characters – are exactly what makes the novel powerful. Those “faults” serve a universalizing function. The strength of the novel, and its lasting impact, stem from the fact that it is ultimately a moral book.
	 
VL - 2015
IS - Volume 10, Issue 2
PY - 2015
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 153
EP - 161
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.15.013.4104
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-litteraria-uic/artykul/william-styrons-sophies-choice-can-faults-become-assets
KW - Styron
KW - Sophie’s Choice
KW - holocaust fiction
KW - Styron criticism.