I have read the first couple of chapters and am enjoying it very much. I really liked this comment: one to which Leavis would no doubt have taken violent exception!
Quote:
|
The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. (page 21)
|
What I wasn't expecting is that there are laugh out loud moments in it, at least in the second lecture on
The Story.