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On moral fiction by John Gardner · Booklabria

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On moral fiction

Name: On moral fiction
Author: John Gardner

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First published: 1978
Language: English
Editions: 4

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Argues that great moral fiction has open-mindedly tested human values in an attempt to discover what best promotes human fulfillment and that current fiction fails to do so and, thus, undermines our experience of literature and our faith in ourselves.

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