Volume 27, Number 19 · December 4, 1980
The Thinking Man's Novel
By Gore Vidal
Ideas and the Novel
by Mary McCarthy
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 121 pp., $7.95
Peacock Displayed: A Satirist in His Context
by Marilyn Butler
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 361 pp., $18.50
What is a novel for? To be read is the simple answer. But since fewer and fewer people want to read novels (as opposed to what the conglomerate-publishers call 'category fiction'), it might be a good idea to take a look at what is being written, and why; at what is being read, and why.
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