{Art and Reality}[14th February 1979]

[Redbook2:141B][19790214:1525]{Art and Reality}[14^th February 1979]

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Basically there are two ways at least of treating a piece of writing (and perhaps any other work of creative art). One is to regard it as an exercise in art, and the other is to treat it as reality. I have always tended to treat fiction as reality, which is probably why I found literary criticism and the critical approach incomprehensible at school. That is not to say that I am unaware of the techniques of form, because I am, although perhaps not yet enough; but I am aware of them as a part of the reality existing within the art, and not as defining the art perceived within our reality.

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