The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
A novel is about people.
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.