“The Novel Of Ideas”
Sir,—The seminar on “The Novel of Ideas” suggested that English departments put aesthetic titillations before ultimate truth, practicable solutions to individual and social problem*, or the fate of civilisation. This was evident both in the choice of books, eg., an out-of-date "novel” by Pater rather than, say, Ayn Rand's “The Fountainhead,” and in their treatment. Just as enthusiasm for music requires long devotion to music, so a full appreciation of ideas requires a prolonged study of ideas in relation to one another and to life. One has to have a habitually searching, doubting, satirical and experimental mind to realise how delicious and glorious Huxley's mind is. The over-all result was like a course in musical appreciation designed to dim-
indsh musical appreciation Yours, etc.. M. D. SADLER. May 18, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 6
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