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Realism, critics, details inert and alive.
Sophistication of the novel, padding like a hotel lamp, time passing, barometers both real and fictive, emotional barometers, gauges of psychological realism.
Fiction is…entertaining or meaningful. Rarely both? “Surplus” of everything:
“Surplus” of happiness or unhappiness…like life.
— Nov 12, 2026 03:17PM
Sophistication of the novel, padding like a hotel lamp, time passing, barometers both real and fictive, emotional barometers, gauges of psychological realism.
Fiction is…entertaining or meaningful. Rarely both? “Surplus” of everything:
“Surplus” of happiness or unhappiness…like life.
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Holly Anne Lofgreen
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Flaubert the flaneur. Realism, detail, slice-of-life, cinematic detail—unnoticed thanks to authorial (literary) immersion and sleight of hand.
It is difficult to describe the zeal I feel while enjoying criticism which examines urgency in moral storytelling while also examining techniques in each finite observation, and whether the moral observation and details are author or character.
— Nov 07, 2026 02:43PM
It is difficult to describe the zeal I feel while enjoying criticism which examines urgency in moral storytelling while also examining techniques in each finite observation, and whether the moral observation and details are author or character.