WHARTON, William

WHARTON, William
   Pseudonym of a US painter and writer (1925-), living in Paris, who wishes not to reveal his name. Best known for FABULATIONS with a MAGIC-REALIST colouring, like Birdy (1979 US) and Dad (1981 US), he movedgradually into tales whose resolution depends upon their being read as FANTASY, like Tidings (1987 US). Franky Furbo (1989 US), like almost allhis work, can be read as an intense evocation of WW's own family, this time in sf terms. The eponymous talking fox - at first presented as a delusional fantasy on the part of the protagonist, author of short stories featuring the animal - turns out to be a genuine visitant from the future who has taken on the protagonist's human form in order to become the mutant progenitor of the new race to which - in the future - he belongs, and which has inherited the battered Earth.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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