WRITERS' CLUB
Members of the Writers' Club held their first Bohemian luncheon for the year yesterday, when Mrs. Una Craig gave a short talk on " The Growth of Realism in the Novel."
By tracing the history of the novel, the speaker showed how it was the record of a development from exaggerated idealism to exaggerated realism. She pointed out that, to the average writer of fiction to-day, the term realism simply meant a stripping of things naked, but this was not a broad enough interpretation of the word. Realism to the greatest writers had in it a touch of the ideal. To them the verv idealism of man was a realism.
The speaker touched briefly on some of the greatest works of fiction and ended by stressing the point that great fiction came only from those writers who looked upon more than one aspect of life and saw broadly the sorrow and the glory of living. After the informal talk. Mrs. Sullivan entertained members with a group of songs. Mrs. T. M. Cluett, the president, presided.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 20
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