OK, good people. I'm giving a talk on political novels/art. So questions:
Do you think political novel in general are bad, and if so, why?
What makes a novel political and another not?
Can art and politics be separated, and if so, should they be?
Hit me!
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Your second question is the one that immediately came to my mind after reading "Do you think political novel in general are bad, and if so, why?"; and I'm struggling a bit (more than that) with an answer to it.
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I have a few answers but I'm interested in finding out more. And just as important, it seems to me that writers are indoctrinated with the idea that politics has no place in lit, and I want to know why.
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Perhaps ask , whose last-but-one novel, "Middle England', isn't just a great comic story, but also a 'narrative comment', if this makes sense, on Brexit, its roots, its nature and its consequences on British society.
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Would love to know what you both think!
'1984' and 'The Master & Margarita' would be in my list of the past century's greatest novels and *are* political - but I still can't bring myself to calling them 'political novels'. This must be a mental block on my part!
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Which is why I'm giving this talk!
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