The Defoe we prize is not a... «A Journal of the Plague Year»
innashpitzberg8 сентября 2012The Defoe we prize is not a working journalist but a novelist whose method is that of the working journalist. To be termed 'an imaginative writer' would have terrified him. The purpose of the pen was to render, in seemingly unconsidered immediacy, true events, and if the events were strange and surprising then so much the better.
(Introduction by Anthony Burgess)
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