Caliban, vol. XXVIII, 1991,
p. 119--132.
Anne Foata
Roman Historique, Roman de moeurs : The Long
Night d'Andrew Lytle
Abstract.
Andrew Lytle's conception of the historical novel is that it should blend the
strict
accuracy of history with the immediacy of life which is the novelist's art.
And life does not exist in a vacuum, it is embedded in the manners and mores
of its time. Lytle also advises the reader to look for the
``controlling image'' or symbol that both
encapsulates and unifies the action and inserts it into a wider perspective.
He addresses Percy Lubbock's criticism of War and Peace and his
own critics and stresses the essential unity of both Tolstoy's novel and his
own.
anne2.foata@wanadoo.fr
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