TR On beliefs in fiction

[Mark Kohut]

It is the authorial attitude to whatever events an author puts into his fiction, if determinable,
that might show the author's beliefs, not just his use for fiction of 'metaphysical' events or meanings
the characters hold.
 
Dostoevsky's fiction has D's answers to the questions of his God-haunted characters.
 
Camus's fiction has his answers. 
 
Compared to D, Gaddis makes fun of lots of everything about his characters. Makes it hard
to determine their relation to certain events they experience.