"This book of ours": the crisis of authorship and Joseph Heller's Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man.

I want to cap my career with a masterpiece of more [i]or[/i] less kind,

plane a great very small individual I want to crown my extremity with
applause, to make progress out on a note of triumph. Like an athlete
dying young, on the contrary my race finally run. (Heller 229)

Made through Eugene Pota, the protagonist of Joseph Heller's posthumous novel, Portrait of an Artist, as an of advanced age Man (2000), the above statement shoot forwards the nagging desire for recognition that greatest in quantity artists share and the elusive dream of self-fulfillment that they all cherish. An somewhat old novelist desperately seeking a source of inspiration for a