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And the winner is Aspects of the Novel! Bookpossum will have the discussion thread up soon.
This seems to be the year so far for revisiting previous winning authors (and nothing bad about that!). In all the years previous we'd never happened to have one but this year we've had two in the first two months - Tóibín from The Master to Nora Webster and now Forster from A Passage to India all the way back in the fledgling months of the club to Aspects of the Novel here five years later. Looking forward to the read! Quote:
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02-05-2017, 02:35 PM | #17 |
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I'm afraid I made an unaccountable error about the date of Forster's work. It dates from his lectures at Cambridge in 1927.
My apologies. (VERY RED FACE). I hope you all do enjoy the book. |
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I didn't think I should comment earlier and therefore influence others' votes - it's just my personal reaction to the man. Sorry fantasyfan!
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Creative theme and choices, fantasyfan! I'm looking forward to the selection. Thanks for volunteering this month.
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This is the problem with Leavis. Hard Times suited his analytical approach. The other works of Dickens he dismissed as "entertainment". That is why he also dismissed Fielding. Leavis's approach just doesn't work with that novelist. And of course, he doesn't really know how to handle Emily Bronte at all. Any tradition that cannot include writers of the stature of those he ignores has a problem of being labelled The Great Tradition. Austen, James, Eliot and Conrad do indeed form a genuine novelistic tradition--but is it the only great one? I wouldn't think so--though that is only my opinion. So why did I choose him? Well, he is certainly a brilliant analyst of the writers he likes. He is also sometimes so wrong-headed and annoying that I think he would be certain of being an interesting focus for a book club discussion. But I confess that I am glad that Forster (whom Leavis dismissed as a critic) won. Last edited by fantasyfan; 02-06-2017 at 09:39 AM. |
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02-06-2017, 10:13 AM | #24 |
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I haven't read any Leavis yet but I too thought the book could spur an interesting discussion if selected. Although now I'm glad it didn't win since Bookpossum has such a viscerally negative opinion of it! As to Hard Times, I haven't read it either, but I suppose it's all a matter of opinion. Outlooks and even general consensuses can and do change and are always subjective. Just because a large majority wouldn't choose Hard Times as Dickens' best, I wouldn't necessarily dismiss someone who thought it was. That said, when one is so judgmentally opinionated as Leavis seems to be, one should also expect judgmental opinions of oneself as a matter of course, heh.
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02-06-2017, 05:51 PM | #25 |
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Yes, I can see your point about interesting discussions, fantasyfan. Like you, I am glad that Forster won and am looking forward to starting on him today.
Thanks for coming up with such an interesting theme and list of books. |
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