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communities, instead of fitting into the larger family unit, as in the past. This
situation was explored in a brilliant novel by Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, which
showed a sensitive yet witty awareness of the predicament of old people and
struck a ...
communities, instead of fitting into the larger family unit, as in the past. This
situation was explored in a brilliant novel by Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, which
showed a sensitive yet witty awareness of the predicament of old people and
struck a ...
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Alain Robbe-Grillet makes a similar demand for a total break with the past,
although he implies that the nouveau roman has satisfactorily made such a break
. He dismisses out of hand all the traditional attributes of the novel — characters,
story, ...
Alain Robbe-Grillet makes a similar demand for a total break with the past,
although he implies that the nouveau roman has satisfactorily made such a break
. He dismisses out of hand all the traditional attributes of the novel — characters,
story, ...
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(BBC recording 1967: 'Novelists of the Sixties') What prevents Gog from being
merely a pleasant fictional travelogue is the almost obsessive quality of Sinclair's
concern for the English past, and his feeling for myth, which he sees as
overtaking ...
(BBC recording 1967: 'Novelists of the Sixties') What prevents Gog from being
merely a pleasant fictional travelogue is the almost obsessive quality of Sinclair's
concern for the English past, and his feeling for myth, which he sees as
overtaking ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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| 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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