Dick Harrison, in his seminal work Unnamed Country, even places the novel in the forefront of Canadian prairie fiction because "Ross's narrator, Mrs. Rolvaag or Frederick Manfred with its realistic and threatening portrayal of prairie life. As For Me And My House holds a position in the Canadian literary canon similar to the fiction of American Great Plains authors O. That the articles Stouck and Ross refer to deal chiefly with the diaristic novel's immersion in and reference to the artistic worlds of painting and music should come as no surprise to those familiar with the text, for it is a novel about art and artists. More was coming I suppose than I knew." In this same vein he has often remarked that critical articles about the novel amaze him-discuss ions of Chopin and George Sand, of Dante, El Greco, or Michelangelo's Pieta, because he had no conscious intention of making them part of the design of his book. For when I was writing I was participating and when you participate you often don't understand or see. "You understand the perhaps better than I do, or at least did when I was writing. In his essay "Sinclair Ross in Letters and Conversation," David Stouck recounts Ross's humble reactions to the array of criticism given to his first and most famous novel, As For Me and My House:
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