...author has asked attention for his imagination, and instead of it has presented his self-consciousness, that stupid form of vanity. If a thing is not true...and this trusting friend are only 'making believe.' Headmits that the events he nar-' rates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative...

...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately struck, in reading over many pages of Anthony Trollope,3 with his want of discretion in this particular. In a digression, a parenthesis or an aside,...

...art. Writing on 'The Art of Fiction\ Henry James insists that 'the novel is history'. When Trollope 'concedes to the reader that he and this trusting friend are only "making believe"', this seems to James a 'terrible crime' and 'it shocks me', James says, every whit as much in Trollope...

...digression, a parenthesis or an aside," James complains of what he calls Trollope's "want of discretion," "he concedes to the reader that he and this trusting...give his narrative any turn the reader may like best" — and this, James adds, "is what I mean by the attitude of apology."25 The joke, of course, is that...

...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...discretion in this particular. In a digression, a Zu TEXT 57: 29/30 the novel is history] Das Verhältnis von "history" und "fiction" wird in den kritischen...

...(Longman's Magazine, September 1884), Henry James described this as "want of discretion". He continued: In a digression, a parenthesis, or an aside, he concedes...the reader that he and this trusting friend are only "make-believe". He admits that the events in the narrative have not really happened, and that he can...

...Henry James in a frequently cited passage severely castigates Trollope for similar interpolations: In a digression, a parenthesis or an aside, he concedes to the reader that he and his trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really...

...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...the events he narrates have not really happened, and 26 that lie can give his narrative any turn the reader may like best. Such a betrayal of a sacred office...

...above as inherent in formal realism: Trollope, and any novelist who shares his attitude, James says, admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give the narrative any turn the reader may like best. Such a betrayal of a sacred office seems to me, I...

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