ISO
ROGER SHATTUCK
Gates of Ivory lead us toward myth, illusion, and dream; the Gates
of Horn confront us with actuality, with the "truth." Rarely can a
work of art pass through one gate only, yet one is always favored. In
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Romanticism declared
its faith in the experience of the Ivory Gates and appropriately named
the poet's retreat an ivory tower. The movement known as Realism,
though lured at the outset by the Gates of Ivory, veered resolutely toward
the Gates of Horn. The characteristic action of Realism (witness such
titles as
Les Illusions perdues
and
L'Education sentimentale)
is de–
poetizing and antiheroic. Both lines of tabulation pose the eternal
problem of the relation between art and life. Mr. Levin declares, in
a
chapter already anthologized, that the soundest way to account for
the public and private aspects of literature, for its complementary or
reciprocal relation to life, is to regard it as an institution. Acknowledging
his debt to Sainte-Beuve and Taine, Mr. Levin moves in on all fronts-–
social, biographical, and formal-to capture the five novelists of
his
"dynasty" : Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Proust.
In addition to a strong sense of historical background and literary
continuity, the central strand that holds this study together is the
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A Fresh Look at «Pru/rock"
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the Irrational Since the
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