... well. The intellectual element that permeates realist works requires that the writer has a definite explicit view of life, for generalization of life and people as they really are is impossible if the writer offers a surrogate for reality or treats the sense and substance of the events and phenomena ... the plot and the scene of their actions had to be placed in a new literary perspective: the plot had to be acted out by particular people particular circumstances, rather than, as had been common in the past, by general human types against a background primarily determined by the approp...

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