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Page 136
... century . Snow is , admittedly , an avowed admirer of Proust , but he clearly reads him in a way that ignores him as a literary innovator , and pushes him back , as it were , into the nineteenth - century realistic tradition : Snow's ...
... century . Snow is , admittedly , an avowed admirer of Proust , but he clearly reads him in a way that ignores him as a literary innovator , and pushes him back , as it were , into the nineteenth - century realistic tradition : Snow's ...
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... century the relations between the writer , the book and the world seem to have stabilised . The novelist could see himself as a recorder , an observer , a collector , even , as with the case of Trollope , a giant hewing out chunks of ...
... century the relations between the writer , the book and the world seem to have stabilised . The novelist could see himself as a recorder , an observer , a collector , even , as with the case of Trollope , a giant hewing out chunks of ...
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... century French author learns Spanish and undertakes the gigantic task of writing Don Quixote again in exactly the same words . This story , as well as being an entertaining piece of fiction , is a splendid critical inquiry into the ...
... century French author learns Spanish and undertakes the gigantic task of writing Don Quixote again in exactly the same words . This story , as well as being an entertaining piece of fiction , is a splendid critical inquiry into the ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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