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Excerpt from Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray, Carlyle, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin, George Meredith
Ing the objective attitude can a novelist avoid putting himself into his characters. Mr. James, analyzing this production with all the acuteness Of the analyst who is also a craftsman, asserts that to avoid putting himself into his characters is the difficulty of the novelist in general, whether he pursues the impersonal manner or not, and maintains that the impersonal manner has notably failed to remove this difficulty for Maupassant himself. And he insists, as from his works one would expect him to insist, that the difficulty only increases the beauty of the problem. N ow, speaking as one must entirely for one's self, I confess that I for one have never felt in reading any of his books that this difficulty of the novelist existed for Thackeray at all. It was not an obstacle he had to circumvent. Whether we agree with Maupassant that in general it.
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