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At wot pone dees «novela or Tong short sory Ait Gide’ The inmontia ly esebed a2 novel the Duel ax sore ory, bt hey ae ath about lhe ovelis gee which oss exact efison Thin lly sking sine anything yee’ for example oF fue ein. isan ay how apie you have o be vty, The pine abu the novel, however, et just Mons tt eee undermines ter tis es fniyene cannibals ner erry modes nd mies he omiscousy totes. You can find poety and dramatic Move ang wh ep, pastoral sate, try cep. tage eres ieraty nodes Virginia Woolf descebed i (all forme The nove quote: aries nd ansorme onvering ster ancetoring mere components ofl Drip vengeance on them, isthe queen of Merary gees in let sense ofthe word than ope might esr sound Buk ive mig meking pot, a mongrel among erry thomogh- fans te otking can do, Yc vei a ingle fast for eight hundeat poges. Or can tecunt de EE — Sewanee eset Sinton ates Seetitageane Sued Suatriatciaeeneeset rs aoe re oe carr aetna paleo eateries acSvcentgaeetec rere ry Saieasytecteeersnen Meena SS ommesan en Taner ane meet eee rte Stoicnovme teen aie nte cect syne aree enone eg [bfeiarvteeneeata ee or Sennen aed Som VESoenS aca Soca Sateen ee eee ee cron eee mia ee Cees arenes Panorama anal romance wil do he the Vicoran novel, you are ging to trhappy ending rm the efactry proble ofthe made wo oats, George Ho, Mandy ad ety te, you en find yng oer ft ch ar myth, bl, tale and romance, ied Pyles’ ones ike eal, epotge aycholoi investigation a ihe novel is romance, however, ka enchanted oe, which hing enn abo ale desires and eral ali. fil frye wheres the maser noel nag nat Te potas a secu, empl word ater tba a mya ot il net face cle, not Nate othe opera Phe absct and eternal and eves sn wat tan couch, ste ny ul eta some segs ed, bu it ae nerves af tea «ob anon. he noel presents with cng seperti sory rater than a ed ayo uivense, THe tte ae oft een, nthe moder er, wer and fewer hings hat, av every phenomenon, ncadingthe sl, seems historia wt The novel the or which sory goes all the way down, This very lent om romance, at Cervantes’ Den Qt makes [Do Oust, somtimes mitkenly cle he fst nore sin fat es hott geme thanx novel ve the org of the wove esha a htc pee of wetng afi whie becomes emily ob soe an Sancho Pana run arose characters who ave act at the Cervantes gree workshows us hw the noel comes Sven ronan Healy, here nthe form of Qubot’s eva ta fds wih the real word Cervantes was not the fst autor 0 omunce inthis way: the presque novel, wih dowbent, fo piers, a done eit, a eam emily, Defoe be ene Tht Den Oise a work which sca aes thisclash between nl ln a ucts, ta eng Formal is io re soe place where rome eal and dsencantd elim Ivor Few phenomena have provoked so moch highflown eto ao much ier dng ue Cerwater novel res wa coe fuse, who hasbeen deen nine by acing co many soma, ls his un bools, ween rem mods books on ie, He es 8 iy. ina book and aks He one too; but siace hea charter 8 Wis anoy alo resi. The novel, then, starts Me as among ete ir of coment, tl hea a nd fat este sends hoy fom» had adel eas snp Bet sce novel CO <«LE=L=_— shone al aus, oy cond Cars the wo bt deo tk Pa ltr ihelgug eae cnc cof he tla ak ‘The dose wih apa opr Me apne $l faith of can wo spas ws Coniey nen Cervantes ars it he wl gh oh ey nex an md ‘thou thes nba Herre Bt ned sa eat Jota mich ter isa mistake ok hats bl Legge ae ery certo he el wer tn bert der tthe al wo tan nye might be sett con ‘pect tat sient The nahi een ngage dlp ‘Sona pal ne enh se wn eet es xs eed agi ral cyte wit ‘a ald may be ant tcl oslo, me a Aion aerate a ae ame el eet nhenomemlogy Tey maybe move. bate few sree than ncn of ees of ally ‘One he grt rove to, was of ne, Radin ton cau ve Jou madi i a ton whch les aes ‘ting the may ihe pen ce ofa ‘wh ay, = uno oe elon wc tb hs Petals thse ny wa aes Conese oe, ‘hes not exper inet ob nn icant ee etn Isom Ben Quit He mort Neves ‘ce hey dont nage te hem eng aT Sue he me me he eng op Rees pe Sharer bos cat ea ntsc tah oa er “i imkerperin pr! of ut mea err to be pre sembly cb gmt emg oe he tue hts ned the pln mace yD ute el Ye ‘mance at noi espe spp, als ‘Langs aro nich ox Qs coe ot on Pu oa can belee hats woman ct nd bene wn a 1 edo ue co ey he Ro eo Sound ig enough ty sem of umn we eed "ecome tym or hao you tml ou wih Pasty ah ‘om stg ough tots apd a ee Saving pte wn rt plese w aetna at aa isan men te rac ey our deen sere vith wh bes or egs upon i Anaels re dhoxe wo fr use hte own Hea Tensor of mora astigmatism ei hat Qusot's ow erat inst, only enough, aes tbe fa deveion othe eolecve asl oles ofthe eal od. Mares something oinble dot Wear” Qusoe's own Meal rotting the Por and doses = bt abo somabing absurd. So tos a mate of bel 9 yi rater dan anes, bt of upbol ude els nthe sae beth. Those who canoe see the world ne Mel to wreak grotemue damage opon fe Literary, orl and. Joel ela al uly ined. a Quine’ ape, sy hfiely connected scl pigs. Aman eho can mastake an en fr hig born mae sao romeane who assumes that ves hin ving, Power nami to de ae. But aay i nrc the cone lesble commodiy’ a the priest observes non pt of the novel. Marvels an be muh are po ranger voter aay monies eat frown setlaerving em ad te shige of commercial pubisting, manipulates fantasy fo ts fiers. it woald appear, sox of favour because the onary reader ue soi and extravagant, The toy tha he novelas form fo the commun Ii, wherear he comsmon people themselves the monsio milous. Quite’ cae sons ara Kind sys of poplar rapesio. The common peple donot Tine own fe nthe micro a. They have gute enough Hie inter working hours without wanking to contemplate It Mite tne as we. Labourers ace more ey 0 ee faa Speyers Certs ret econ that she bouring masses need 1 lls bead erent ar mach wook they eed to ee Te bles ba the plays sould be censored wo slp chem of thie iyapnes, sel only he elated ete who prefer tei art lend rc to Nature. Cervantes gs wins Mens serous nis by ising on the versimitudeof hi wring om probbll Vn’ asthe canon puts whe athe same ee catty iver pling fantasies by creating hero who acs them out. els ihe gese wich fire the common ie, aso the frm Malo te thir st vere ad conltng The nove from Wool rece of modery, and mosey is the ped in anno gi even on fundamen Ou les and bei are Mn denn, andthe novel nef tis conden. the EE _____—— ot hd fear forms «space wh ett le toe ae teliefsystems continually colle, Besse of ths 0 ene of he ca pe dominate without a srogye The el ove gue ofien tows is wee hin a pula way of sein tbe wo ti elt ts ‘very fon Isis rom one penpecive to another, hare maine ‘tious characters intr, a ws aur sympathy for nes ad characters 1 ind eiscomforing by bringing the so vil ali. ae hi oe reason why the form was orginally gested wih ach supcon, tg tre reais can make @ ean comrade ofthe devi himself For Mihail aii, the nove testo eng and lnppesr agai, the sve dreading is way through a neste fndape: Tou ee Be thins, when a cenaed iterary, gic i pola eur sin. ringt crumbles when the vr an idole ene can oer ho asin Helene Greece, imps Rome othe waning othe medial Chore, cas Bakhtin nds the novel emersing Monolthic plc, Ingul te and earl fons ae giving way o what Bain ab hetero cr inguiic dvr, ahs epost ave all by the novel Int ‘ew; the, the novel laberety antrmaie eis» maverick fer xpi of al authoritarian cis to rth, No dou this makes it sound ‘90 inerely ubversive, There snot mach ofthe vei sb Safed Burk or much Inguins eratyin The Waves In any eae otal dversy icra all aorky opresiv. Yer Bain surely ight sce the ‘ove ar emerging fiom the seam of uur dipping withthe shards and figment of ther fms ie artic on the ap areal ihe? ‘ural ifeforms an tis means hati has cla negative Mey I ising of lngages and form of es «mal of mee oct. nat simply a refeeson on gel sw the noel asthe ep af prose mre work eh all the ‘ange and populous of the el, without, fr the mapa spe nti mension. The novel eemes thecal eco ts consi dnt manative, drumase action sta he mei wo. ler on ‘it however, in einga dcr ofthe psc rather tan ofthe pas Fo the move i sore alla emperor ets ery name sagt To th ‘tent, ith more in common wth The Tins than wh Home. When was fo he pst ies fen to wet a he pchisoy othe preset Eve the histori novel ic gently coded reecton on the preent, he novel isthe mythology of cso ited by his own every xine Ssnether behind or ahead fis anes, ba abreast ofthe I eflets them thou morbid nostalgia or elanory hope ethene erry resi or ea elfen sala! ph meas het he novel polly peaking, othe nt peer acon ot onset pe Home to eb s rset wich away ne pes of cane sa Puy ner than an cero penonoeon ba ce change this worn, snot tke king ne eer theresa dict modem rm, whatever acne pede, puri base tes ob uray th at To be made meas Mee tothe ps everything tat happened upto 10 mites 9p. yt only epr which actly Stier el vacuo enh Hp todiencs ea halos aloes. he moder seid by verve with is porsage tii esting expen ec atone fo which reas with tons od urtanet vty on the parce ed by coor, melo fe wtgty elign or command ha clined 0 he se hn tos, which esc cole pris stcing. Wires the epic bea he gute of mo one ator, bens he ingens fan indo wre known 8 es fe wh ass il alo rented othe eof phism, evome to verse tobe unifl.The more value thee ae he fe pelem roe ot become el was bom these ie at moder sence and shares its Air, hn bade pte along wth upon of uty Dut ths mee tha, king abort ose se Wnts, Having al aoa sore of aux, mse fave abort now sas no cooing Yous Ib econ Se orig youre oie nw feat, he word nore Wook! uggs rests th the moves anther ungrounded antigo fi swat ender eprom, noel 4 ie der human sige ho, "orga the sere that en! women se spond to be the aor of the own Who you ars no lone tern by kp wadiion ot uj. scat werhing yo determine for youselt. Modern ke he ers mr nove make temsles up 25 hey > hye selon and ee dtrming an nt Be he lie econ, however, gl, ppv kd of fe ok any macy Reon Ter ong ithe acta hep. Ae vale as evap fom the weed in the EE — ‘der ag wih s what makes foe ume dam, Bue Wao wh ‘ender that freedoms ene. eveytg spent only be ‘thing tical nore vale than anti ee ‘We have nen tht the novel and she ple fern heir asco dhe is. Ba there ic anathe ey disnton bere them, The pede with ‘vor of nobles and ary heroes, wheres the novel deals wi the ‘common fe. Ils the eat popular genre, he oe anes erry me thick seas the langage ofthe people. The novel isthe gent vera leary at, which draws upon the murs of ndnary speech ater ha some speciazed leary lngsge eno the ie sry form in Which ‘he canon people soe am appearance. Bucs the Fe ost hem wa unvaveing serious. Ou cantemporary version of thi no doe te ‘oap opr, which we enjoy not so much fo he caso daa tm ff plo ut because we find the fain an everyday 4 srange source of fascination in Well. The modern eqns of Mal Faas Eat "The saggerng popula of Realty TY programmes which cos Spy in someane prteingminiemly ard hs kichen kr hous on en bs one imresing uth: hs many of fi he pleases of he ate ‘nd tepeitve even more edutiv than we do the sila fave ‘Theva of everyday lie the theme of one of the greatest works a herr cholahip eves pulsed ae Auerbach’ Mins’ Bor Seach realism theta fom wh ds the wordy ef men an woe ‘supremely whale ae One ofthe etna example ofthis n Engh ‘wring eam be found in Wordsworth and Cleric Blla,eh In howevericalzing form peaks op fr the commen ie a source of eatin. The nove or Auerbach fan incplly democrat kid of a owe to what he ses asthe sate, hierarchic dekstoriczed. sola ‘chav at of anil angi. To adopt Waller Benjamins er mar form whieh destroys he ‘nu of dance and rajeaty which digs to such csscal artefacts, bringing Me coer tou rte hin rang ‘yun oor reach Author in me sore high mars fo Being aa ‘gor, earthy, dynam, demos, gorenqu and erly mid nd se rapped smaly over che Kaul for blag sige eit, sealed stereotyped and non deveepnent “Tere ly 40 Anetbach args, no seous tcstment of the comm people in she cure of hassel ang. Cont hs with 2 eke he ‘New Tesament, which grants a humble German lke Peter penal tne sas, According the philosopher Charles Taya, was Chita ‘ay which is inweduced the revoltonay noon tat every ie oll ds iv Auch apg, ee Chetan gpa, with 1 Goda cums the poor and dese i eamialeaque igh and ow, which proves the source of reas’ eeeanion commonplace. Yor yo etd the hungry snd vk the de oe of sme esos ul Ina hind of ik ke of « Mew, prady of eal pomp ashe es a i a death ae» pil enna, {heaven of els, the, the comin people ok her ele ir nto the Mary aens, tng before they make an appearance on lies! sage sone of the momentous evens of aman hotry ine now tke cally for granted Is aed or wt tk orseves Io cule for which, sy. relions between parents ad cee, ry economic Me, we of ie artpi mee. Auerbach a Jewish [ro Her, was wing sour th noel whi inex in sana ame tine akan wa ang abot a Asien in Sens bth en sn populate pi ator power In fo leben cae nourishes for of reo inde casi, and ler och ad hese aly Borst through note mai ih Mera nthe shape ofthe noel. ite prlens with eese chim. For one thing, alien andthe Te nt the sare thing, Not all eam novels, as Auerbach ic otal novels ane eal: Nor o all novel senack ofa plebein Me b nor mich ean next the Binge of Me Kaiey lly. nyc, caries by no means lays subversive. ff a otra simpy Because Ie ports the experience of eur is sometimes ett the nd fea whith kes the vet ad ssoreevesg the Boron ofthe socal wero fred mcs neces Soap. Dat dhs assumes hat, is insensive to sca epteation only Besse they ae unaware his for oo hatable# view of them. alm Inthe sense of fae tr o eis ae neces seoltionay. Ae Berk ond, pting + fory em Sage wl el] you nothing about i mans showing the wold i ely ister than how some hyn peso mater hight concened of then We ae Arto snc how the world ee abet of ere conertion. on itr cviaton were to dacovera copy of Samuel Rekt’s which two elery characters sped ther tme sting in Mey would not beable to tll wheter the play ws elit ot EEE — nonsestsin yokg.at They wold eo: hte shingle syn a apa aie Inmwenehcotay Eup oc meng et cok ht ss el hig ae tect cane resi brn frei Oi Ponca cl ‘io evict mene fie to ase wl af Stes child bc onsen ei tb trie any ter in of wer who wat amd et mg incl prses mach Ase are ney pu he ‘en se ou ows rly have wren "Aco el Sy ee fom unde the ne fe, win cen such deacon Be pt ‘ey ons om the ew fh hy ae es “Tiss They hae or Fey ames vet“ ee 2s, en aed congener whch es inte tt sy whe wed hat is tar aa pee iiss hough epmeratons hve cme ope tae sae slg hough hem 9 rey Ha Te steepest So ‘em woul be ve whch wt tee wih wtf pee, Ba thn no tne etree sal pete worries sd wn ot Besos Fpecgreer or some commit, rio na actualy more re a reity fe became now how the werd ay om Sade and eninge Rey hess pee en fe ne sp or espcton tn ther it owed Naw sik the con ner thn ln te dh ae fr Chae Dis ws see feted mbt coh ian aacottie bt ing. hy allowed Pesy ne ‘aware te Noel Pee rm chen sour nel ag ‘sivepetig ai nei wouldve huge aes pohe g «asa plece of black humour, aa — Itt dmgron, sen ak bout a a repeating ral sor thet oh om pre ‘esto bet oy es ser eeo o ‘stot compte eeu th ely to check Row aie frac nat we mem by "ey tole uo of ep ten. way, inpesin abnte speneon W wesomtuy antag fa pork copoly po Pont dos base wee tel wi eto be we of facnaan with aso a which as dee nthe hua rye, whch ies tthe oo Tnchaense eal, wich Averbach es athe mos natre of yao Bethe ros regressive. What ws nerd san aerate tin mystery may isl be opine example of tem novel ae rast, bu alin he dominant ofthe aden vel alo the yank fo many etal jadgemens. Lie sho ae not "ais, i the sense of Being cede, an lire and pycologaly comple, ae generly awarded hab the cra ebshmen. ee not ear where ti leaves Tees the Mich witches Mites God S's Galler Jin or Becket’ ose Real ia Mad of at congenial to 29 iil sy, with ee oe he mater war pane Yon cremnal an metaphysis eth cast about ial wel fh io szocal progress nis dass sudy fhe Now fm Wate regards al of these as tesons wy the linn emerge in the egheedh centr. He alo adduces nero intial poycholoy, kr eculeand emp wlan is devotion othe concrete and specie: Aafia the 1 conver alo worth neing that de novel nota Hom ke thse masyes ode o cles weiten~ perhaps fe lepton = for ape ocaions. Ths, 0, sa ark ofits her ha paca tt ghee cenary commentators the anor to the question oval? would be "Athy pce of Seton nly formants Jn th dint, Jacke Cle write novel but Wir ot Fr these ea observer, the novel wat es ike the The Nero he Wari was alo Hee newspaper bcos wat lyon wsly bought and ead only once, as opposed 1 the act of prssing asl th of efng works which yr and over apn. The avel Belong to a neve world of uy and capably, paying someting ike te role of frit conespondce “Nove mean sesaonalie its, ston iy wokers Me ene eng nd Saal Richardson he store ie Many geemen id ot by and ge sate nowy very fo they did thatthe fe tut neccesy toa welloneret dongs bee aparenc The new was thus bound to Be Iv Whatever wy all was also venerable, The novel ‘wasnt herr’ ad eentainly not ae Te ative ‘was a reaife one ~ that you had stumbled sere ch ale of mou Jeers or mans was away of nding hat fa Ht oma ge. Even your cli wat no tke sexo, sin kink 9a ‘vay of being taken seu Inthe end he Brglsh novel woul wrest vengeance on tse wh lisse it asf ony for emales by producing sme magnet portayal ‘of women, fom Clas Hatowe and Eine Wooshouse to Ml loom snd Mrs Ramsay. aso produce some dotingushed femal exponents of the crt. Asa form woul gow in importance a poetry Bene ore Ing privatised As pocry gly ene tobe a pale genre omewhese| ‘between Sbely and Swinburne ts moral and sacl income ps othe rove inane dvi of rary abo, By the midnineteeath enn, the word oct’ has Became more oles synonymous wath he inet the persana, he spinal or ppehologcl aways which woul! no doula Ine come a5. mighty supe to Dane, Mon snd Pope. The oct his ‘now been redefined a the oppose ofthe sai, dicurv, dota ap ‘oneeptul al of whic has bee relegated to pene eto. The ove kes ‘ae ofthe outer ward we poe copes wth he imer one Ils no a Atncton which Henry Fingal Ren Jonson, wold have fou ll tha nelle. ‘The very diane heren the tw moder fle ‘owing alenon betwee the pu andthe pvt, “he pcm for oct i that seme ncn roe fo {minds eps sociey coming to define fe There sno obvi place forthe Ic ina world of surance companies and a roel ‘ment pies The phate [poete josie” realy men he Kind of jute ‘would noc expect to ee done rei Me, There however, an eal od lem with the noel very closreeto scl extence, he nove alt ‘oF i’ bow cant ceach us more general ath This a pata poben| for devoy Protestant dghteasentry author ie Sauel Rican fer whom the aie of ton only rely jute il convey a ore ‘out, Otherwise is le, een sia any. The dilemma f thatthe more gic you make yor els, the ‘is eves the mora ruth home; but the moze smalaneoly unde ‘nines since the reader Becomes more atv t the reais deta a to the univer uth ti ear oexempi. Thee in ated pre here, You cant 82 abel, ange tht the wold shold be chan in certain respects wes you demic whit s wrung wth es comp lng a pombe, Ba the more flee you do this te es change ‘nay come 1 seekers’ later novels portray a soley 40 ape an aig prev ha har ose how cou be ion Kaew thi i readg the eae novel, we lleved a i is iso atone al he sre ne, We surener orseles ily ote atv, the sane tinea ater par our inde ies tht hissy ke hen. Reardon pes is pte ondence of that Kd ef isola, which ton wei ener eu with) even di we know eto be son”. eas though he pare in hs nos taken aby the story eto rele on and dae es fn th wy, sea can be eserved, bt can ao er, deeper facto, Writing af is novel Cars, Rchrdson ns that he watts toting ts Preice which would prove that the rs ton, bur athe doce not want to be ow genuine ees apie the eas quandary esc. The eader mise no be tld Tonk is fion, sins thi ight nermine x power. Bats readers ly ike tt be el hs in un mig iii exemplary force Thenbecome ikea newspaper report ofa acta pe ater than om on virtue, vice an eal power i general ot ist moicaly minded achorsHke Richardson who coniont lem. Pat of what we mean by 2 work of fcton is one which Mhe reer daw ome general efletons fom it tory. This it gh 'No Fi ine 3 work a con, bough you could ur into Ip enogh by sean sy, a8 4 commen on he star cofine- fie vel As ara craving gene mpasons pcs, a ele ory cl ws So Bon does nox exc mes not ue’ It means he ator (eter se ae erated sucha way a0 make Ha ios sigcance beyond sel? Tsay ns be the stappese Tal steam sos owe ‘eeary” stats, as though sch a siping yi very seGconscouew “Dont eke this eral toh, weve, would Be to ik lang the ypc fhe lo elt esi how fon may bea pent sours of Mek te inci of eeogy sto resent pes skuton as though nies eh a parca bunch of scokboys eailp in five when washed up what pecs an rk ton i hs goes to semonstate tht all human begs ae sees the sh i ___— Realm and the exempt would hus wen ful a tee IF Twit is just Oliver Twas e fel the fal fore oF chat. Yet ths ‘character does not seem to ave ay deeper sym denon, We know him nthe sue way re now these ier net dor = ma wh She sl sia les looks ety normal nd nonexse, Bepsslto bi| sel ba always at polite word or you when you mec. Yet fers ‘Siler of heaesess and eppresion, then this despens his nine ‘nly at the i ofthinlng out bu parclary,Prased to an exer, ‘would tum him into a mere aegory. Exempla without els ‘empey, wheres ree without exemplars ling ‘Wha we il sions the place where dhe two ae supposed to converge yon set out to put 2 portal f sy the wks of the legal seem then fiction is probably the mas efective way of dng, sine allo you so eit, select, wanspoee and reamunge, in way which mos fall hight the expel etre fee non Real fe acount of aly Jes and the like would pba ean oo nich tha wa vi nl ‘ran repetitive rnc to our purpose. iin thier ht tn 'ssometines came tbe more real than ele. Ifyou ae to une tha ‘hie aspects of an event or invdua i a enget an economical way she, you may wel ind yourself eesingspotaneosly int tion, ty fd youre venting stan hich te pc ae Ini casi ty of the novel The Gra tn the i, Ley eins a rly great novel neo chi ay at play what he ‘reverent opennes before Mi, and mat eal an ong fom. Th ‘rouble hat these ewo requirement re noe easy compatible with ‘tes: Or rath, hey would only be tal comma "tal to reveal an organ form The nove coal hen be revere ope! 1 thor going Baggy could be both repcsenttional and orally wie ‘The history ofthe nove, however, i Belle bythe prble of bel ‘otha he same time, Ip the modes er npr ~ the ped novel est flourishing human fe sem lee and eo bave an ot design to 0 bow ae the designs imponed upon iby noel ot be implasiy artis How are sey no ofl the novels elie presenti funcon® How ithe viry phenomenon ofthe novel ‘tobe a monstrous elfcontadson? Now preset ws with hock objective images ofthe wool, ye we know fr a fa that thes tne subjetvely shaped. In ths sen, the now! anion, sel ee I fm seems aos wih come redecom o's contin “The ina nove ob fou ugg wih ss dicly a oon a erg hos ihe Defer and Ron acl the problem by mt Form repsenason. Dee sercely even tes 1 shape his tion Mscan ole nse, the frees of he narton reflect sherds objet The gap berween oem ad ortent sy elleaively dishing the former. Richarson tks a ida path ele wing the moment, a tchaigue which nels his rien recording tbe experiences sey happen. A Richaron chara. Svhinve ing bith won most cerly havea pen and notaboo runes ence pin, conte ie what gies shape t0 Yorn isnovel ar by no mens loose and baggy a8 Def’, bu they fe rupulos about not filpng Tne experience by fit 100 fea ant shape upon The plows purtan sacral sulci ts He ao mucous ofa seo Toms o conventions ht neon themes between Bi ad isin Me, His inner hei fine ig oF saleation, and 0 must be accesible him isa inmeny Heng takes he oppose way ov, cheesfily ackrowiedyng tlc of notes, an een nie tenon wo he wD finn and coer rather than seking to conceal. With com rupert rh ede’ geemanly good sense, ing doesnot Tolorgt har weaein novel, attempt o pull some cheap co Ii ction He svar, fr example, that whe the require oval ds egies ha hi line mee icky end and is pe happiness, his fom comical at oa wth he axl Ser an uns soc, you cannot represent thingy a they es hronious design athe mee aman ws, ls one aon why this gap Denween fore and coment can ved yo con resolve a eng and ns successors fen do but the reer avare that thi teconcing of form and coment eat bone you are a ove Isnt be akan fo suey ich why the novel a one fm. In een [al sil testi eae rom fs the aca wel, un arson Ades woud prob ave ended pi atch vat Al te sae, theft hat we ave aging of such ven isp Sona repesents and oF topan hope LE ___— he noel a woplan image ~ non wha ep which ean be savesome enous but nthe very ato representation ah ae which at ‘mos ective shapes the worl nto meaning wih no dient oy ea fy. In this, to mate i al orl at Laurence Sere so the impasslty freconling for a aly snd plac om the dry one ofthe peste aot fa ie Tstrim Shans. Tera the marti, cannot give a tae count is cao Me history and athe ssn hon shape i story thu fil pat atthe scams ork dhe oie that rests sl econstacting enterprise. As Ralend Barthes comment “The alo prs an ti ene en eae ym seat it y word tar hres soy often ip tyra neue nve hs anh ba de eal ise of ese ed Til ey now, wth cating yea rae quem stom anal cms se dese ore ponte Whe novels the moder epi, i in Goong Ll ous se, the epic of word abandoned by Ga? Hamat sve for sense ad iy 'ge wha things longer sem to hrbour any inberent meaning ot ale Meaning sao longer ersten into empl experience “cy the who can say when before” andar, Robert Mul ccresin vl two of The Maw Without Quer Ax soon at such mance ‘recunting evens fn croasogcal order, Mist goes on, he fe conte feven if moment ago he was weing in agony In thle tosh ‘eirown ives, Mus cones, most people behave ike nates hy i nord sequence of evens bcnse thie look feces sbout ‘ony poem that the mader wore now become non-native ‘Oe way tn which the novel mck overcome th deal by es of racer ‘Character gers it uy varied ange f event perience What ols these diverse experiences tothe theft. they all happen to you. Another way i though the at of aating ‘which involves pattern and cont bt ao change and irene Ny tv implies a kindof necesty, as ease and ee, ston a eat sre lnk local 1 each other. Nama ders the wor im sh ‘whch seems to emerge spotzneny fom Yet every nati ines hae one ould aways have tl the Airey; so thet deste tof ect, every naive cmtn Reaity wil accommodate 3 whole number ote show isla wl af worth te fom the ie. "There cull neve be soe father as there could never be pst one word ne number For many at thee so longer one bg nar embeded in he wend Wick we simply need the sil to decipher. And at ths Becomes pot becom ste evs porte wo the novel. The fact ta Inert on» search, qos voyage sugsts hat meaning Is een in advance hy te tine of Leopold Bhom's olless per in Use heres no longer even a seach for anything Motion ety mich forts own sake. Narre ghee Bagments of the spy, which i way ofabaping the nile wl. iy wring does the same at a more collect Mpifence, as ane event flows cn the Bel of aneer with 20 fa Between them, Deis noel ae a cae po vel eas ou fcr, he modems wer be ony rule ining a thse which we invent fo ounces Poly pene Tekno a denna, We are sete fom beng mere Fanos i of Gi ewe who pve form and meaning realy bd Ti mol of this reve at. AS the novel conjtes 2 new ten, a profine parody of Gs creation, wesc nd hs er nae i hitory, For ome commenters, Teles the novel mow rly real What reflec most Tero he wo bt che way im wich the won comes st Toyo bestowing fn ands pone The novel ome ew eae not hea can lost hear he sages sing ie reveals the th hat all betty st roe re ett outees, doesnot al knowledge Become a pone Aree we simply knowing canals rather thas ely wos, haw can eave authority? The that help Into een mks mare precious, bu I alo what rine ts ceive vale. We wil sce something oF ie inthe Boon of Vita Woot ning ede doc nse saas, then there i sense fg ane no rely the eo at all Ths eaves ae uj Wabi reduces ely to a elm of eject which EE — have ben drsne of meaning But ube wold dine of ewig. the human beng have no place which they can at pare al | ‘ammo aie her ale practic. And he les hy andthe more they begin to negate fom the nse As ely blend of ah s0 the human psyche begins to implode. What we ae le with a ua ‘being eho i vane bat una in worl whi i old bt vals, ming and value are diven from the plc woe which nove soulless expanse of neural fc, and hrs dep in the incon ote Jnuman subject, wher hey ll ba vanish The worl thus ved down the mide Berween fact a ae, abt and pate, bjt tl meaning, "This for Georg Laks in Theoryf he Now the anne como oh moder ag. which the novel fesse arm. How can you tell astery in sch asta I ecms ess and es poste to place a nanane fom a world of ise, dacomnected objec S the ves can tm Snead w dhe ier Bat thie ae been even in| ‘pen se beating reuet fom a soulless work ant thas come subse and densely tered the proces tht it resi anything af strsitacetng and tealring atmtaive: We shal wth the se tenes ofthe ater Henry James, wich uy toy everything t once witha ‘imply loaning 0 the exter world Becoming too por fo a the and the steal one to rch, Nama of the inner word ae problem because the human psyche no Inger seme nea aaa Ait when what matered was who your ancestors were and whee 9 ‘woul ans iiete eo your nm iden Intend, pla ‘where pas, present and future stock, wth no cer fon be them, Nor wil he ine if peovde you wth any sare way of ding Ing beween what isgacant and what note what toh have coinmon ida they happen to yon The ltr monologues of Lee ‘nd Molly loom in Joys Use ar cise in pin. This depen eral css of val, a al experience cem tobe med prom togehe, Tor Laks, hen the novel the prod ofa llented wold Ye Is alo «utopian respon tof Alenation is the condson In which tou women fl tengnie the objective word as thei own mbjeth ‘rein. Yet the very ast of wing 4 novel an alee to onion, since a novels ‘sieve isk of the word is oe rot the aljecvity oft author The ac of wring cos the horde et subjective and objetve. The novel one of the ew objects in a re society which manifests every objive deta the subjective ea aii miaaemamieeal Awa bor, thane Yr etn an Be een a a tan ose ol pobre non wih Laks dpc Thy the ov er fhe entry moder noe! ha fe tense rest pat wes of etcn-cenry eam os eed Pe Filan ol ev lee fe a,j aa be en ter, lan soe however mc he laos ue stain A sch ny ng on boon, mami epee as try. hs try which Lahde Ie wrk om er nr entra vestige soy when mea i hon ear ce onc wih thigh en he oe oF ph cnuy tothe endo the Fe Word War tae erry iv he nove shits Fom Seng = primary coms 02 ay age nud the ey Lkicr’s dessin ofthe noel on becomes Troe apc iran ae which an no longer shape he cna lag no «cent whe, ead we sal sen he ls Hs lene Je Jn Cod ae confi oe 208 ui th cy of the novel ae They rel ee ie bak ttn th ole of marie, he une the tl of sgt snips tbe oy of wae, the foyer meaning “Orga enw so wana, or Mirren oh a or th work Hyer yer rene red. The oder wr sw Toe novel ooh to ays at i ab beets ier of Cet Ss, nec WM Foes tr cre Vpn Wo tone uel ees net pry cre iy he ein hating pa ror cscy ne ne ct ono a Bote es actcac restore. megan Petr ttt npn mp eng nee ngs aly ted eo ie ee oa eh i sn rte oo Dain wih one ol he proce ow pe EO ‘donor an expensive csc diction saute ees val leo groups ke women, who had bee chested oh an cation and ‘Sha ut rom such ape, ‘Wore alo blk! lage among novel writers Deas the novel a supposed to be a elie about the ner He st wa about the ote ‘Women. sereorpialy viewed as eastodans of the feng o techakan ofthe hea, were thus obvious andes for producing. This wasn however, imply a matter of stereaeyping Like al soc groups under the | Sn decipher sgn of power, symm of dates, ara or dang usazas fay Al he nt ac to the wating offen, ven ‘ame sof tle lends te eo Beng sce gent Intense, the novel festze a ritance to autho athe vey ‘hat was Becoming a tesoutel neu of made cls extra po Wie served middleclass soy 30 spery, war not kn the i pl ‘cae i championed the aus of mill wner or fishioned deren steeorypes of srking workers. is cise became the supreme ‘eater, nthe phere of etal representations, of what was to coun = ‘nthe is place. And ths version of rey involNed an encoun of eing ad exhivene Ie alo involved cera ognized oe ‘wreaked on lngunge. Part of the nova ape wat that seme {0 accommesdat evry jag, argoe and iim. yet spoke no spell language ofits own, Instead, informed dseoune to st cout the common lnguage fs spec plae and sie. And this epee genuine democrat advance Rater than snp ellen ney Toweve, the novel abo beled 0 dea up the ue or what a ay acceptable: and ke a ach rls this involve «good eal jude and eoercveness Insome scot ofthe novel, ab ivored a certain a ose

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