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... Caute is not a question to speculate about here . But in The Illusion ' Steven Bright ' certainly speaks with David Caute's own voice ; one finds the same combination of darting , urbane intelligence , seriousness , breadth of reading ...
... Caute is not a question to speculate about here . But in The Illusion ' Steven Bright ' certainly speaks with David Caute's own voice ; one finds the same combination of darting , urbane intelligence , seriousness , breadth of reading ...
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... Caute dwells on the problems of composition , intervenes in the narrative and directly addresses the reader . The novel owes much to Caute's own new allegiance to Brecht and Verfremdung - equally evident in theatrical terms in The ...
... Caute dwells on the problems of composition , intervenes in the narrative and directly addresses the reader . The novel owes much to Caute's own new allegiance to Brecht and Verfremdung - equally evident in theatrical terms in The ...
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... Caute is not to be dismissed as a writer , however defective he is as a novelist . The problem may be , if one recalls T. S. Eliot's judgement that Henry James had a mind too fine to be violated by ideas , that Caute has too many ideas ...
... Caute is not to be dismissed as a writer , however defective he is as a novelist . The problem may be , if one recalls T. S. Eliot's judgement that Henry James had a mind too fine to be violated by ideas , that Caute has too many ideas ...
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