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- Title
Spinozan Realism: The Prophetic Fiction of Jane Bowles.
- Authors
Adams, Don
- Abstract
This essay argues that the critically neglected work of the American mid-twentieth-century writer Jane Bowles is a rare attempt at realism in modern fiction that takes as its metaphysical premise the reality referred to in Spinoza's pronouncement, "By reality and perfection I understand the same." Bowles' innately allegorical fiction is an effort to reveal the perfect reality of the world by prophetically creating the future rather than mimetically preserving the present and recovering the past, expressing a world that is existentially founded rather than representationally endured. The realism of perfection her prophetic creations strive to apprehend serves as a necessary reproof of the all too actual world reflected in merely mimetic fiction.
- Subjects
REALISM; BOWLES, Jane Auer, 1917-1973
- Publication
Janus Head, 2016, Vol 15, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
1524-2269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/jh201615228