The Morels by Christopher Hacker

Author:Christopher Hacker [Hacker, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781616952440
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2013-04-29T14:00:00+00:00

On the subway ride downtown, turning over Cynthia Bonjorni’s card in my hand, I puzzled over Arthur’s explanation—his modus operandi—pieces of ancient art theory I didn’t fully grasp. It all seemed so arbitrary. That quote of Aristotle’s, for instance, that Arthur should put the emphasis on the word action. He wrote it down for me when I asked him to repeat it. I looked at it now. First of all, wasn’t the real key word here tragedy? Aristotle was describing an ancient form of dramatic art, not literary art. And in emphasizing action, he seemed to be overlooking the more important word: imitation. Surely Aristotle wasn’t advocating that novelists write novels that brought about their ruin. And anyway, what was he was trying to purge?

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