O Anus Mirabilis!” The literary critic Leslie Fiedler reads much into this and sees the whole novel as “a fractured and dissolving parable of the very process by which the emancipated Jew enters into the world of Western Culture.”  Inside the Trojan Horse Balso encounters an array of odd characters who, he realizes, are all “writers in search of an audience”.
Leslie Fiedler, a literary critic, interprets "O Anus Mirabilis!" as a significant part of the novel. He sees it as a parable about how emancipated Jews navigate Western culture. Balso encounters various characters who are all writers seeking recognition and attention in the Trojan Horse.