ABSTRACT

First published in 1991. This book is written with the intent to reach serious readers in and outside a university through joint mental contact with serious writers of the present and the past. To get whatever there is to be got out of this book, a reader should also read or have read (at least) Bernard Malamud’s A New Life, Saul Bellow’s Herzog and Doris Lessing’s The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, so that we can work together.

chapter 1|51 pages

THE REALITY OF READING

chapter 2|36 pages

THE CART AND THE HORSE (I)

chapter 3|43 pages

THE CART AND THE HORSE (II)

chapter 4|69 pages

ANCIENT AND MODERN (I)

chapter 5|63 pages

ANCIENT AND MODERN (II)

chapter 6|40 pages

'EFFECTIVE ENGLISH'