Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysItem consists of a selection of articles and reviews written between 1962 and 1965. |
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Page 106
... characters and leading me , the reader , to feel I knew them too . I no longer trust novels which fully satisfy my passion to understand . Sarraute is right , too , that the novel's traditional machinery for furnishing a scene , and ...
... characters and leading me , the reader , to feel I knew them too . I no longer trust novels which fully satisfy my passion to understand . Sarraute is right , too , that the novel's traditional machinery for furnishing a scene , and ...
Page 135
... characters into disguise for long stretches of the story clearly partakes of the style of metatheater . From Prospero to the Police Chief in Genet's The Balcony , the personages of metatheater are characters in search of an action . I ...
... characters into disguise for long stretches of the story clearly partakes of the style of metatheater . From Prospero to the Police Chief in Genet's The Balcony , the personages of metatheater are characters in search of an action . I ...
Page 168
... characters talk about feelings , pas- sions , desires , and impulses of a strictly psychological order , in which a single word is to compensate for innumerable gestures , is the reason ... the theater has lost its true raison d'être ...
... characters talk about feelings , pas- sions , desires , and impulses of a strictly psychological order , in which a single word is to compensate for innumerable gestures , is the reason ... the theater has lost its true raison d'être ...
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