As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.