Category Archives: lessing

A question of emphasis

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

In the context of a long and fascinating piece on E.M. Forster’s attitude to fiction in the LRB (10 May 2007), Frank Kermode comments: Discordances between the order of story and the order of the narrative can be methodically and … Continue reading →

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Commonplaces

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Ever since I came across W.H. Auden’s commonplace book, the name of which I forget, I’ve been collecting extracts that appeal to me in one way or another. It’s the most impersonal, and knowing, form of autobiography there is, and … Continue reading →

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