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144 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2010
أن تكون روائيا هو الابداع في أن تكون ساذجا وحساسا في الوقت نفسه
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بالنسبة لنا يكفي أن نلاحظ بأن شيلر استخدم الكلمة
sentimentalisch
لوصف حالة العقل الذي انحرف عن بساطة وقوة الطبيعة وأصبح محصورا جدا في عواطفه وأفكاره الخاصة
هدفي هنا هو الوصول إلى مفهوم أعمق لمقال شيلر
المقال الذي شُغفت به منذ شبابي
وفي نفس الوقت توضيح أفكاري حول فن الرواية من خلال مقال شيلر (فعلت ذلك دوما) وللتعبير عنها بدقة
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المتعة الحقيقية في قراءة الرواية تبدأ من قابلية رؤية العالم ليس من الخارج
ولكن من خلال عيون الشخصيات التي تستوطن ذلك العالم
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Let us use the word “naive” to describe this type of sensibility, this type of novelist and novel reader—those who are not at all concerned with the artificial aspects of writing and reading a novel. And let us use the term “reflective” to describe precisely the opposite sensibility: in other words, the readers and writers who are fascinated by the artificiality of the text and its failure to attain reality, and who pay close attention to the methods used in writing novels and to the way our mind works as we read. Being a novelist is the art of being both naive and reflective at the same time....he then goes on to privilege the visual in the novel at the expense of language, content over form, and Lukacs over...well, he doesn't even mention Brecht or his modernist dispute with the Hungarian master's celebration of 19th C realism.
Novels can address people of the modern era, indeed all humanity, because they are three dimensional fictions. They can speak of personal experience, the knowledge we acquire through our senses, and at the same time they can provide a fragment of knowledge, an intuition, a clue about the deepest thing - in other words, the center, or what Tolstoy would call the meaning of life ( or however we refer to it), that difficult-to-reach place we optimistically think exists.
The naïve poet doesn't differentiate much between his perception of the world and the world itself. But the modern reflective sentimental-reflective poet questions everything he perceives, even his very senses.