“Wickramasinghe can be compared to a generation of self-educated writers from village, rural, or regional origins who have brought about the modernization of their national literatures: Faulkner in the USA Ramos in Brazil, di Lampedusa in Italy. Through a direct approach to colloquial language and the reintroduction of popular themes, such writers have tried to bring their national literatures into line, in an imaginative way, with the social reality…… ”