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of characters results, an isolation we began to see in Dickens' soliloquizing
characters who are really all talking to themselves.
Pritchett values the Russians most because they are so in the midst
of life, of people, of the nation, and yet see so clearly and widely.
In
The Eternal Husband,
Dostoevsky's one Western novel, written when
he had temporarily exhausted his anxiety for salvation, Dostoevsky could
even see the comic aspects of the strange and terrifying collisions and
conjunctions of the inner life. But though he likes the Russian novel,
Pritchett's own temperamental bias is toward the eighteenth century,
toward Gulliver and Candide, toward rational humanism and a tolerant
acceptance of the varieties of human types and ideas. "Egging readers
on to personal conversion is not one of the functions of the novel."
"The compensations of life are not moral; they are simply more life of
a different kind." "Propaganda does not become art until it has the
grace and courage to welcome the apparent defeat of its purpose."
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