Work is central to literature

[Jasper]

Terrance?

Ya Sam wrote:
> 'Work, then - broadly defined - is central to literature. Don Quixote 
> goes headlong into the windmill - what is the noble fool doing but his 
> misguided work? Work puts Ishmael on the Pequod. Work brings Esther to 
> Bleak House and sends Humbert Humbert to the house on Lawn Street. 
> Work defines the plot and central moral conceit of Ian McEwan's 
> Saturday. Work as wayward scientific inquiry prompts Tyrone Slothrop's 
> erections during the Blitz and forces him out into the Zone in Thomas 
> Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, while work as blind loyalty reveals the 
> trouble with blind loyalty in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. 
> These examples highlight how vocation in literature is never 
> happenstance, never half-hearted decision-making, but artfully 
> premeditated and always purposeful. Work does work in every great book 
> - even if just to allow the characters enough leisure time to pursue 
> the main drama.'
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> http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2061320,00.html
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