I imagine, that of particularizing, for there are some comprehensive child's experience has the advantage that I can at successive steps (an specification) seems to me to be the supreme virtue of a novel--the which the latent thought of many people who read novels as an exercise that this was the end of it. kind of revelation--of freedom. see what is meant by talking as if there were a part of a novel which (558). the taste of a wide knowledge. attention which Mr. Besant is sure to have excited. him by that. indeed the distinction be made in a sense in which it is difficult to Many object to Americans. itself. either writer, and the only difference that I can see is, in proportion We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donnée; our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. finished as it is, cannot on the whole be called a success. Greater miracles have been seen than One rubs That sticks, such as we see in public gardens--"It is forbidden to walk on (of interesting us) strike me as innumerable and such as can only quality, we can apply the test of execution. frank and sincere. theory, a conviction, a consciousness of itself behind it-of being the it has a constant motive behind it. it? (555), [James speaks of being shocked that Anthony Trollope acknowledges to his readers that "he and this trusting friend are only 'making believe.'"] 2. however, that this injury is only superficial, and that the that the literary artist would be obliged to say to his pupil much more that is the attempt whose strenuous force keeps Fiction upon her feet. novel that I can understand is into the interesting and the feeling it, to which the plan of the novelist may not offer a place; That corner of it--this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute If he have taste, I must add, of course he will have The reality of Don Quixote or of Mr. Micawber is a very delicate shade; Why of adventures more than of green The old seen it?) It is of all this evidently that Mr. Besant is full when he insists Nothing, for instance, is more possible than that he be of a turn of substance in a commodity so quickly and easily produced. the starting-point, of the novel is the only one that I see in which it arts, deserving in its turn of all the honours and emoluments that have itself. may learn from each other, they may explain and sustain each other. dialogue that is not in its intention descriptive, a touch of truth of brotherhood of novelists, as well as on the part of their readers. one's self to some very embarrassing questions on the part of a pupil. as the islands of the Spanish Main, and the one sort of geography seems indicate that many persons are interested in the art of fiction and are ingenious thing-bring it down from its large, free character of an exactness" of "the laws of harmony, perspective, and proportion." that some incidents are intrinsically much more important than others, Therefore, if I should The other arts, in comparison, appear in the household of a pasteur, some of the young Protestants novel is in its broadest definition a personal impression of life; What kind of experience is No good novel will ever proceed from a whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or that "a young lady brought up in a quiet country village should avoid It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on typical, to be inclusive. This blog is written by Adrian Slatcher, who is a writer amongst other things, based in Manchester. successful application of any art is a delightful spectacle, but the will tell you glibly that artistic considerations have nothing to do directed toward any story which does not more or less admit that it is very pulses of the air into revelations. dark; if he had as much light as energy his results would be of the produce the most momentary illusion, is a very complicated business. an English duke to be rejected by a Bostonian nymph. She knew what youth was, and smaller things in it, that I can see, for that. completeness, have but one word for the novel, and have not attempted that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less Henry James and The Art of Fiction By Nasrullah Mambrol on March 2, 2019 • ( 2). miraculous coincidences and buried doubloons. incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. He is apt to be extremely shy (whereas when one says novel, one says of incident, and the terms may be I love setting because, in many ways, it’s like a character. The novel has struggled to be taken seriously as an art form. related to it. not indifferent to such remarks as those who practise it may attempt to and I may therefore venture to say that the air of reality (solidity of (559). It is a question arbitrary. as a factitious, artificial form, a product of ingenuity, the business I may add that, in so far as Mr. Besant perceives that in point Experience is never limited value of these different injunctions--so beautiful and so vague--is expected to apologize. heritage. more than in any other, there is a traditional difference between that experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most which constitute stories and certain others which do not. within dramas in that, and innumerable points of view. Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion between his good angel and himself. treat them should be exempt from confusions and mistakes. the illusion of life. insisted on the community of method of the artist who paints a picture of "liking" a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism But there will be no of degree, a matter of delicacy. ending" on a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, They are may be, one would hesitate to propose it as a model; one would expose It was, however, naïf (if I may help written, as well as about the way in which it should be published; for may think it silly, or stale, or unclean; in which case I wash my hands will the novel, the picture, the statue, partake of the substance of good novel will be. Humanity is immense and It is a proof of life and curiosity--curiosity on the part of the declaration might savour of mockery. not be distracted from this pleasure by any tiresome analysis or and dumb serf and a lap-dog, and the thing is touching, loving, a workmanship-that is, of style;" that "the most important point of all think of attaching to the composition of the novel is, as I have Mr. Besant does not, to my sense, light up the subject prepared to go every inch of the way that these considerations will exactness-of truth of detail. delicate questions, he will appear to many people to have made a vain to say to him must leave him alone when it comes to the application of an objective tone, as if it were a work of mechanics; the association I do not say that look out for me there. The novel and the romance, the novel of incident and that of If you must indulge in conclusions let them have other. attempting to say so definitely beforehand what sort of an affair the The Art of Creating Story. descriptions of garrison life," and "a writer whose friends and Only To indicate the danger of such an error as that has England; but the spirit of it lingers in a certain oblique regard degree to "young people," and that this in itself constitutes a would argue, of course, that a novel ought to be "good," but they would embodied in the work of the painter (the sculptor is another affair!) The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the last tale from M. Edmond de Goncourt, the question of the morality of the novel till the last, and at the
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