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... any attempt to examine this situation leads towards other questions , which are conventionally regarded as extra - literary . ... in some measure , to attempt to define what it means to be English at the present time .
... any attempt to examine this situation leads towards other questions , which are conventionally regarded as extra - literary . ... in some measure , to attempt to define what it means to be English at the present time .
Page 97
The tight plotting comes in the other , and increasingly dominant , part of the novel ; it describes the attempts of a ... such as the attempt at an uprising by Venezuelan exiles in Florence in 1899 , or the grisly account of German ...
The tight plotting comes in the other , and increasingly dominant , part of the novel ; it describes the attempts of a ... such as the attempt at an uprising by Venezuelan exiles in Florence in 1899 , or the grisly account of German ...
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In his next novel , Trawl , Johnson seems to take up Beckett's hint , and abandons all attempts to invent fictional characters ... or trawling , through the memories of his past life in an attempt to find some pattern in them .
In his next novel , Trawl , Johnson seems to take up Beckett's hint , and abandons all attempts to invent fictional characters ... or trawling , through the memories of his past life in an attempt to find some pattern in them .
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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