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The fact that there would still be some remaining demand for novels would not
affect the issue , since modern large ... There is little that the prospective novelist
could do , apart from circulating his work in manuscript , since the printing and ...
The fact that there would still be some remaining demand for novels would not
affect the issue , since modern large ... There is little that the prospective novelist
could do , apart from circulating his work in manuscript , since the printing and ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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