James Wood is back

[Mark Kohut]

Reveals a bias, yes? He basically likes the kind of novels which first
spoke to him--
and the postmodern novel that is outside the modernist streams and the
kinds you mention.

He basically accepts the world as it is. THE WORLD IS ALL THAT IS THE CASE. and
those kinds of novels which know 'the horror, the possible and buried
horror" miss his
consciousness.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> By fixing on humdrum domestic details, novels, he says, redeem life and
>> rescue it from its sad ephemerality; a book is not solitary, like the person
>> who reads it, but dispenses "proximity, fellow-feeling, compassion,
>> communion".
>
>
> Humdrum domestic details?
> Is this what novels fix on?
>
> What of Romance, Gothic, Sensationalism....?
>
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