The Essential Critic
“When I was writing about Tom Wolfe, reviewing A Man In Full,” he says, “it seemed to me there was a moral and aesthetic task as a critic: to say to the reader, now, he keeps on saying he’s like Dickens. First of all, let’s have a look at Dickens. Secondly, if you believe that he’s as good as Dickens or that he will give you the sustenance that a really good novelist — Philip Roth or Bellow or whatever — can give you, then you’re cheating yourself and you’re being cheated, and I’m going to point out how he’s sentimental, raucous and crude.”
James Wood sees literary criticism as a means of revealing truth in novels
boeklog over A Man in Full
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