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?
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For example, 'The Count of Monte Cristo' is the most savage attack on France's 1840s social, judicial and political system which I can think of. But is it a 'political novel'? No.
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Of course it is political. It's a great novel and all great novels are inherently political. What we think of as political novels, are usually those with overt messages, and those tend to be bad.


