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Hermione Lee on Books on the Novel
Hermione Lee looks at a handful (actually a shelfful) of recent books on the novel in the latest NY Review of Books :
“As in all these books, there is a great deal of discussion about the relation between the aesthetic and the ideological. In the long history of attacks on the novel for being more pleasurable than moral, or more about style than ethics, the image of the “sugared pill” has been a recurring metaphor… As with fiction, so with criticism. Moretti maintains that “pleasure and critique should not be divided,” but there were many times, wading through The Novel, that I wished the pill had been better sugared.”
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