“The Task of the Artist” Fiction—if it at all aspires to be art—appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music, like all art, the appeal of one temperament to all the other innumerable temperaments whose subtle and resistless power endows passing events with their true meaning, and creates the moral, [...]
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On Writing: Conrad
Posted in writing, tagged Conrad., prose, writing on 09/08/2011 | 1 Comment »
Book Review: Today by David Miller
Posted in Book Review, tagged Atlantic Books, Conrad., David Miller, Today on 07/08/2011 | 1 Comment »
Today, by David Miller (Atlantic Books, 2011) Today is a superbly crafted book. Miller’s Conrad is silent, in the wings, while his secretary/ “typewriter”, his cook, his wife [who is decidedly not based on Woolf’s description of her as his “lump”], his daughter-in-law, his grandson and sons and friends – like those flawed, failed characters who [...]
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