TR On beliefs in fiction

[David Morris]

One might not be able to figure an author's thoughts from the text, but the
fictional world & work are interpretable by the author's design, usually.
 It's partly why we read fiction. So the values and messages in the text
might not be the author's own, but they are his hard wrought product. An
author producing a work that is foreign to his own sympathies is probably
not going to generate greatness.  So sez I.

On Friday, July 29, 2011, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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