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There is little that the prospective novelist could do, apart from circulating his
work in manuscript, since the printing and ... can easily be duplicated or, for that
matter, recorded on tape), and few novelists could meet it out of their own pockets
.
There is little that the prospective novelist could do, apart from circulating his
work in manuscript, since the printing and ... can easily be duplicated or, for that
matter, recorded on tape), and few novelists could meet it out of their own pockets
.
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For Bayley, Tolstoy is the supreme novelist – a judgement from which I presume
no-one would wish to dissent — because he presents not a world, but the world;
in Tolstoy's fiction the experiences of the novel flow inevitably into our own ...
For Bayley, Tolstoy is the supreme novelist – a judgement from which I presume
no-one would wish to dissent — because he presents not a world, but the world;
in Tolstoy's fiction the experiences of the novel flow inevitably into our own ...
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Such an approach makes one inclined to call John Bayley the Longinus of neo-
realist criticism. There is no awareness in his writing that it is at such moments
when, as one readily agrees, the novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life
itself, ...
Such an approach makes one inclined to call John Bayley the Longinus of neo-
realist criticism. There is no awareness in his writing that it is at such moments
when, as one readily agrees, the novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life
itself, ...
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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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