Sunday, 25 August 2019

{Extracts on Fiction and Tragedy}[5th January 1989]


[Redbook6:89-90)][19890105:2052]{Extracts on Fiction and Tragedy}[5th January 1989]

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The business of the author was ‘not to ask what the situation would be likely to make of his characters, but what his characters, being what they are, would make of the situation.’*

What a relief!


*Edith Wharton, quoted in Waterstones’ Guide to Books, 1987.
[So no need for character development, then, in the dynamic sense?]


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