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Can a novelist write too well?
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At least a couple of times, probably more often, Anthony Burgess declared that Evelyn Waugh wrote 'too well for a novelist'. 'Sour grapes' you may say, remembering that in his own novels Burgess often wrote in clumsy and slapdash style, and that he was perhaps himself a better reviewer than novelist. But it wasn't just sour grapes.
There was an argument behind the opinion.
He believed that writing a novel 'should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey'.
Compare [he suggested] Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End with Waugh's ...
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