Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
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Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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