Beautiful Sentences: Harry Levin

The history of the realistic novel shows that fiction tends towards autobiography. The increasing demands for social and psychological detail that are made upon the novelist can only be satisfied out of his own experience. The forces which make him an outsider focus his observation upon himself.

Harry Levin, James Joyce: A Critical Introduction.


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