NP really but, maybe tangentially: Llosa & Lit Romance, medieval version

[Mark Kohut]

And Stendhal perhaps most famously summed up the realistic tradition:
"a mirror walking down a road".................

Such is a kind of literary Mason/Dixon line..................................


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From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 12:00:03 PM
Subject: RE: NP really but, maybe tangentially:  Llosa &  Lit Romance, medieval 
version

Mark Kohut says of Vargas Llosa:

> He deplores simple mimesis in literature. Believes literature 'creates
> its own world', yet in the reading we connect it with life, ours and
>  society's

Rebecca West: "A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of
the damned things is ample."