The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965  

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"in which he [Sade] shows a comprehensive knowledge of the history of European fiction from the Greek romances through Boccaccio, Cervantes, Mme. de La Fayette, Marivaux, Richardson and Fielding, to Monk Lewis and Mrs. Radcliffe (who figures as ‘Radgliffe’). He lays down some excellent principles, all of which he has more or less violated: that the novelist must not depart from what is probable; that he must not interrupt his story with incidents that are either too frequent or not properly related to the subject; that it should never be the author who moralizes but always one of the characters in his novel, and that he ought not even then to be made to except when he is forced to by circumstances."--Edmund Wilson: The Bit Between My Teeth, A Literary Chronicle of 1950–1965. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, p. 206.

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The Bit Between My Teeth, A Literary Chronicle of 1950–1965 (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965) is a text by Edmund Wilson.




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