Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days When Success In Life Had Depended On Marriage, And Marriage Had Depended On Money, Novelists Had Had A Subject To Write About. The Great Epics Sang Of War, The Novel Of Marriage. Sexual Equality, Good For Women, Had Been Bad For The Novel. And Divorce Had Undone It Completely. What Would It Matter Whom Emma Married If She Could File For Separation Later? How Would Isabel Archer's Marriage To Gilbert Osmond Have Been Affected By The Existence Of A Prenup? As Far As Saunders Was Concerned, Marriage Didn't Mean Much Anymore, And Neither Did The Novel. Where Could You Find The Marriage Plot Nowadays? You Couldn't. You Had To Read Historical Fiction. You Had To Read Non-Western Novels Involving Traditional Societies. Afghani Novels, Indian Novels. You Had To Go, Literarily Speaking, Back In Time.

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: The Novel Had Reached Its Apogee With The Marriage Plot And Had Never Recovered From Its Disappearance. In The Days

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