Aspects of the Novel
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"Aspects of the Novel" is a series of lectures given by Forster in Cambridge in 1927. It was widely praised in the history of literature and had an important influence on later literary creation and literary criticism. This book is characterized by a clear, comprehensive and easy-to-read structure. The author uses his own writing as a starting point and conducts in-depth analysis against famous works in literary history, including some sharp comments on writers such as Fitzgerald and Henry James. In this series of lectures, Forster talked about the relationship between novels and reality, proposing the view that novels are both larger than reality and smaller than reality; he proposed the views of "flat characters" and "round characters", which became terms often used by later critics; he proposed that "the function of the novelist is to reveal the hidden life from its roots". The discussion of narrative angles and artistic expressions such as patterns and rhythms is particularly pioneering and inspiring.
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