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The Egoist
George Meredith
出版
Penguin Adult
, 1968
主題
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0140430342
9780140430349
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aQ1aAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Virginia Woolf said of
The Egoist
: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice.
The Egoist
is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.