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Page 40
As it has developed from Murphy, Beckett's fiction shows a steady decline from
character to an almost wholly sub-human mode of existence, ruined creatures
with no more life in them than Robbe-Grillet's centipede crushed on the wall. And
yet ...
As it has developed from Murphy, Beckett's fiction shows a steady decline from
character to an almost wholly sub-human mode of existence, ruined creatures
with no more life in them than Robbe-Grillet's centipede crushed on the wall. And
yet ...
Page 53
... It is salutary to bear in mind that the novel did not come into existence in a
social vacuum and, as I have stressed, has been implicated throughout its
existence with social, ideological and even technological factors; I have no
objection, even, ...
... It is salutary to bear in mind that the novel did not come into existence in a
social vacuum and, as I have stressed, has been implicated throughout its
existence with social, ideological and even technological factors; I have no
objection, even, ...
Page 102
He identified himself with Herzog's distaste for the extreme manifestations of the
elegiac or apocalyptic mood in modern literature, and observes: 'I think a good
deal of Herzog can be explained simply by the implicit assumption that existence,
...
He identified himself with Herzog's distaste for the extreme manifestations of the
elegiac or apocalyptic mood in modern literature, and observes: 'I think a good
deal of Herzog can be explained simply by the implicit assumption that existence,
...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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