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Who is this writer? Larry Send a noteboard - 23/08/2010 09:31:30 AM
Quotes from the introduction to a famous book, with slight edits in order to remove the author's identity:

"These books baffled contemporary critics who were used to the conventions of realist fiction."

"They were particularly critical of the language used in the books."

One critic wrote "that the quasi-archaic vocabulary was 'only preserved from general derision by the author's evident and pathetic conviction that he is doing the right thing.'"

This author said that his works "should not be read as allegories."

And this author is "now rightly acknowledged as 'the man who invented fantasy.'"


Have any idea who this author might be?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Who is this writer? - 23/08/2010 09:31:30 AM 819 Views
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Yeah. *NM* - 23/08/2010 07:44:41 PM 200 Views
cheater. *NM* - 23/08/2010 09:22:29 PM 219 Views
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Aw, there's some realist fiction back then. *NM* - 24/08/2010 09:47:11 PM 201 Views
Guy de Maupassant. *NM* - 24/08/2010 10:26:43 AM 193 Views
Never thought of Maupassant writing fantasies, to be honest - 24/08/2010 02:51:12 PM 475 Views

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