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Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
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“The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that spreads in a more serious form throughout the body just when one things it has been removed. Who is there left to imitate after the tyrant has been removed. Henceforth men shall copy each other; idolatry of one person is replaced by hatred of a hundred thousand rivals. In Balzac's opinion, too, there is no other god but envy for the modern crowd whose greed is no longer stemmed and held within acceptable limits by the monarch. Men will become gods for each other.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that spreads in a more serious form throughout the body just when one thinks it has been removed. Who is there left to imitate after the "tyrant"? Henceforth men shall copy each other; idolatry of one person is replaced by hatred of a hundred thousand rivals. In Balzac's opinion, too, there is no other god but envy for the modern crowd whose greed is no longer stemmed and held within acceptable limits by the monarch. Men will become gods for each other.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
“Kahraman, gururun aldatıcı ilahından vazgeçerek kölelikten kurtulur ve sonunda mutsuzluğun hakikatine erişir. Bu vazgeçiş, yaratıcı vazgeçişten ayırt edilemez. Romantıik bir yazarı gerçek romancı yapan metafizik arzuyu yenmesidir.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
“Le leggi del desiderio sono universali ma non comportano l'uniformità delle opere romanzesche, nemmeno sui punti di applicazione. La legge fonda la diversità e la rende intelligibile. L'unità romanzesca appare a condizione che smettiamo di considerare il personaggio - il sacrosanto individuo - come una entità perfettamente autonoma e scopriamo le leggi dei rapporti fra tutti i personaggi.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
“La dialettica hegeliana si fondava sul coraggio fisico: colui che non ha paura sarà il padrone, colui che ha paura sarà lo schiavo. La dialettica romanzesca si fonda sull'ipocrisia: la violenza, lungi dal servire gli interessi di colui che la esercita, rivela l'intensità del suo desiderio; è dunque un segno di schiavitù.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
“Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile dell'esperienza quotidiana. Marcel Proust chiama "Io" i "mondi" proiettati dalle successive mediazioni. Gli Io sono perfettamente isolati gli uni dagli altri, incapaci di rammentarsi degli Io passati o di presagire gli Io futuri.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
