he writer has a grudge against society, which.... : Quote by Renata Adler

“ he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. ”

Renata Adler
  • From : Toward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism
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