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That's surely obvious. In an essay on François Mauriac, Graham Greene declared himself 'tired of the dogmatically "pure" novel, the tradition founded by Flaubert and reaching its magnificent tortuous climax in England in the works of Henry James', whose novels, one may add, do satisfy [Anthony Burgess]'s call for 'a journey into the unknown' with the prose conveying 'the difficulties of that journey' -- difficulties for the reader too, often enough.
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Can a Novelist Write Too Well?
At least a couple of times, probably more often, Anthony Burgess declared that Evelyn Waugh wrote 'too well for a novelist'. 'Sour grapes' you may say, remembering that in his own novels Burgess often wrote in clumsy and slapdash style, ...
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