Up Stream —— An American Chronicle

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ISBN: 9781331673408 出版年：2016 页码：248 Ludwig Lewisohn Forgotten Books

Some such perception and some such motive is in the consciousness Of every serious novelist and in that of every thinker. But the novelist sacrifices to a form and the thinker to a system. Each has had an anterior vision into which he lets his facts and even his emo tions melt. And this anterior vision — of a fable in the one case, Of a logical structure in the other — is nothing but a mask. For both the novelist and the philosopher is only an autobiographer in disguise. Each writes a confession; each is a lyricist at bottom. I, too, could easily have written a novel or a treatise. I have chosen to drop the mask.