Pamela : or Virtue Rewarded, first novel of Samuel Richardson.
... movements getting in the way of the intuition. The errors of Goethe and Bankim were only an overestimation of a genius or a talent that was new and there- fore attractive at the time. Richardson's Pamela was after all the beginning of modern fiction. I don't know anything about Sarajubala. As I have said, the general intuition does not work at once and with a mechanical accuracy. Over-estimation of ...
... temporary movements getting in the way of the intuition. The errors of Goethe and Bankim were only an overestimation of a genius or a talent that was new and therefore attractive at the time. Richardson's Pamela was after all the beginning of modern fiction. As I have said, the general intuition does not work at once and with a mechanical accuracy. Overestimation of a contemporary is frequent; underestimation ...
... Manchester Guardian 3 as "masterly". But Durrell is far indeed from writing a plain hand. Richard Mayne, 4 in the Sunday Times , declares: "His prose beguiles us with marvels of virtuosity." And even Pamela Hansford Johnson, 5 who finds the book wanting in a centre, criticises it by saying that one reads it for just "the glittering, elaborate, lyric beauty of the style". Yes, even today richness ...
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