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...book's case against James seems the angriest and least clear. Anderson's debatable point is that as an arch-"imperial-self novelist" James made the artist more important than his real subject: life. Anderson gets even grouchier when dealing with his fellow critics, who have been "emotional collaborators" in all this madness. "It is a well-kept secret essential to understanding the cultural moment," he writes bitterly, "that those over thirty who are occupied with literature believe works of art to be more real than life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The I of the Beholder | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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