Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:02:58 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: A bird went looking for a cage ...


Hugh wrote:
>She's also forgetting Georg Lukacs's brilliant insight (cold-blooded
>Stalinist butcher that he was -- he scared the shit out of Brecht when
>Brecht was forced to pass through Moscow on his way to exile in the US) in
>The Historical Novel that a colourless p-b narrator provides an excellent
>foil for showing off the dramatic events exploding all around him -- the
>universal artistic necessity of the stooge. So at least some of the dramas
>could have revolved around the Fate of Humanity using the p-b as a prism to
>refract events.

Possibly. But such a device tends to reduce the Fate of Humanity to a
spectacle for an individual. (I am merely speaking of a tendency here.) As
I said earlier (though in a different manner), a moralist is a spectator.

Yoshie




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