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Forster, E.M.
Aspects of the Novel / E.M. Forster. – Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd., 1962. – 176 p. – (Pelican Books ; 3`6, A 557) .

The effort to see through novels, not round them - that is how E.M. Forster describes the driving force behind thid book. He discards the weighty "historical" view with its cumbersome apparatus of "tendencies", "influences", and "periods". Instead we are to imagine all novelists at work together in a circular room. With this welcome freshness of approach the author of "A Passage to India" discusses the various ways we can look at a novel. On the simplest level there is the story, droning on relentlessly from "and then" to "and then". Its importance is acknowledged with a gentle underlying regret - "yes - oh dear yes - the novel tells a story". For the story is in itself formless: the interest of a great novel lies in more complex elements. Jane Austen can swell a flat character into a round one within a single sentence: Meredith contrives plots through which characters and incidents closely interact; "Tristram Shendy" is filled with the fantastic spirit of muddle; while Dostoevsky`s creations are those of a prophet. "Aspects of the Novel", originally a course of Clark Lectures at Cambridge, is full of E.M. Forster`s habitual wit and wisdom.

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