Journal article
Driven to Write
SubStance, Vol.32(1), pp.72-73
01/01/2003
DOI: 10.1353/sub.2003.0032
Abstract
[...]what is the point in this—assuming that we wish to find out what a novel mightbe—unless first of all a ground is ascertained and clearly delineated? A story that reveals the possibilities of life is not necessarily an appeal; but it does appeal to a moment of fury without which its author would remain blind to these possibilities, which are those of excess. Of this I am sure: only an intolerable, impossible ordeal can give an author the means of achieving that wide-ranging vision that readers weary of the narrow limitations imposed by convention are waiting for. [...]it has long driven me to reflect on writing and reading within what early postwar critics cast as a literature of extreme situations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Driven to Write
- Creators
- Steven Ungar - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- SubStance, Vol.32(1), pp.72-73
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/sub.2003.0032
- ISSN
- 0049-2426
- eISSN
- 1527-2095
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2003
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9984397923102771
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