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Page 121
... Fiction. Fall ( 1928 ) and Vile Bodies ( 1930 ) -but these are raised above mere entertainment by touching , almost inciden- tally , on real human issues ( the relation of the innocent to a circumambient malevolence is a persistent theme ...
... Fiction. Fall ( 1928 ) and Vile Bodies ( 1930 ) -but these are raised above mere entertainment by touching , almost inciden- tally , on real human issues ( the relation of the innocent to a circumambient malevolence is a persistent theme ...
Page 133
... fiction . The Russian novel of the age following World War II , however , has undergone a dramatic schism , in which writers like Aleksandr Solzhe- nitsyn and Boris Pasternak ( 1890-1960 ) could receive the Nobel Prize but be officially ...
... fiction . The Russian novel of the age following World War II , however , has undergone a dramatic schism , in which writers like Aleksandr Solzhe- nitsyn and Boris Pasternak ( 1890-1960 ) could receive the Nobel Prize but be officially ...
Page 141
... fictions vary in style and seriousness , but their single concern is clear : to ex- plore the nature of man's secular existence . This focus was somewhat new for short fiction , heretofore either di- dactic or escapist . Despite the ...
... fictions vary in style and seriousness , but their single concern is clear : to ex- plore the nature of man's secular existence . This focus was somewhat new for short fiction , heretofore either di- dactic or escapist . Despite the ...
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