Myths and morals: a conversation with Edward Mendelson | Prospect Magazine

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > The idea that a novel can be something that expresses a national 
identity seems to be false.<

If he said a novel can never be reduced to expressing a national 
identity, I'd agree. But in this form the sentence appears simply wrong. 
/Doktor Faustus/, /Vineland/ ...


On 30.05.2015 14:55, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Remember our conversations about writers and " moral"? Pervades this 
> by a Pynchon and Woolf lover, who is not mentioned.
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