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Page 183
... remains fascinating . In an interesting note on David Riesman , Lionel Trilling says that ' the novelist , in his ideal character , is the artist who is consumed by the desire to know how things really are , who has entered into an ...
... remains fascinating . In an interesting note on David Riesman , Lionel Trilling says that ' the novelist , in his ideal character , is the artist who is consumed by the desire to know how things really are , who has entered into an ...
Page 198
... remains an extremely interesting novel . Plomer's second novel , Sado , about Japan , also remains interesting , but less so as a novel . As an artist in the rendering of scenes , Plomer is a virtuoso ; but with this goes an inability ...
... remains an extremely interesting novel . Plomer's second novel , Sado , about Japan , also remains interesting , but less so as a novel . As an artist in the rendering of scenes , Plomer is a virtuoso ; but with this goes an inability ...
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... remains frozen in her postures of malign and self- deluded silliness . Wilson is fascinated by vulgarity , the gratuitous cruelty of offen- sively bad manners , and by the raw indecency , strictly the obscenity , which quarrels within a ...
... remains frozen in her postures of malign and self- deluded silliness . Wilson is fascinated by vulgarity , the gratuitous cruelty of offen- sively bad manners , and by the raw indecency , strictly the obscenity , which quarrels within a ...
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