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“A term like modernism has the usefulness of any carrying case, but it is hopelessly overused by now: the endless academic arguments about whether it is a backpack or a steamer trunk, and what to fit in or leave behind, have come to seem like the interminable deliberations of someone determined never to get out the door.”
― Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
― Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
“Moreau is a scientist and an artist, a colonialist handing down the law to “lesser breeds,” a man of God ministering to lost souls, a teacher drilling in lessons, a politician and a tyrant, a would-be God who, as it turns out, is about to lose control of his ugly Eden.”
― Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
― Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
“She uses it to depict character but also to show what it is, she believes, to have character and indeed humanity—or, as in the case of some of her characters, not. These are what she means by “central things,” by contrast to the egotistic, eccentric performance of Joyce.”
― Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
― Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
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