{"id":2257,"date":"2010-07-24T05:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T05:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2010-07-24T05:29:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T05:29:55","slug":"2257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/07\/24\/2257\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Heartbreak<\/em> has an English middle-class reticence when it comes  to the deep exploration of feeling. There is a sense in which the novel  rationalises this defect by taking refuge behind its stiff-upper-lipped  characters. We are told that people are in love or despair, rather than  seeing this in action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;.The world of this novel is not a pleasant one. It is a sex-obsessed  place full of beautiful, genetically faithless people who talk mostly  about art and shagging when they\u2019re not saying \u2018fuck you\u2019. Friendship in  this hermetic sphere is \u2018one friend betraying another friend to a third  friend\u2019. Happiness and self-fulfilment are for the most part outlandish  fantasies. And, as Schopenhauer remarked, there is no altruism. It is a  high-minded clich\u00e9 of contemporary fiction that love is doomed, social  hope bankrupt and virtue wet behind the ears. In this context, the most  outrageously avant-garde novel would be one in which someone was happy  for a change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v32\/n12\/terry-eagleton\/count-the-commas\">this review<\/a> over at the LRB and considered while reading it Terry Eagleton may well be onto something. Then began to imagine the people who inspired it and boiled the kettle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Heartbreak has an English middle-class reticence when it comes to the deep exploration of feeling. There is a sense in which the novel rationalises this defect by taking refuge behind its stiff-upper-lipped characters. We are told that people are in love or despair, rather than seeing this in action. &#8220;&#8230;.The world of this novel is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}