His short stories take you back the world of Irish Catholic neighborhoods in the Great Depression. Farrell was definitely under the political influence of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and even of Leon Trotsky himself then in exile in Mexico.He rejected the Stalinist idea of proletarian propaganda literature. A number of his short stories describe real intellectual types attracted to radical left wing politics.I enjoyed reading many of his now "dated" short stories.
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