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Page 86
Podhoretz makes an important point when he says that Heller is ' trying to make
credible the incredible reality of American life in the middle of the twentieth
century ' . It has been amplified by Norman Mailer when he compares the
Vietnam War ...
Podhoretz makes an important point when he says that Heller is ' trying to make
credible the incredible reality of American life in the middle of the twentieth
century ' . It has been amplified by Norman Mailer when he compares the
Vietnam War ...
Page 90
There is a comparable division in absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom
one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general ,
and those who are much more concerned with establishing their own individual ...
There is a comparable division in absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom
one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general ,
and those who are much more concerned with establishing their own individual ...
Page 92
We find the phrase in John Barth ' s early novel , The End of the Road , when the
hero , Jacob Horner , is being harangued by a doctor about the nature of reality :
There ' s no reason in the long run why Italy shouldn ' t be shaped like a ...
We find the phrase in John Barth ' s early novel , The End of the Road , when the
hero , Jacob Horner , is being harangued by a doctor about the nature of reality :
There ' s no reason in the long run why Italy shouldn ' t be shaped like a ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel II | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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