Articles liés à Adrian Savage: A Novel (1911)
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The characters it portrays, their circumstances and the episodes in which they play a part, are my own invention. Every sincere and scientific student of human nature and the social scene must, of necessity, depend upon direct observation of life for his general types the said types being the composite photographs with which study and observation have supplied him. But, for the shaping of individual characters out of the said types, he should, in my opinion, rely exclusively upon his imagination and his sense of dramatic coherence. Exactly in proportion as he does this can he claim to be a true artist. Since the novel, to be a work of art, must be impersonal, neither autobiographical nor biographical. I am not, of course, speaking of the historical novel, whether the history involved be ancient or contemporary, nor am I speaking of an admitted satire. I wish further to assure my readers that the names of my characters have been selected at random; and belong, certainly in sequence of Christian and surname, to no persons with whom I am, or ever have been, acquainted. I may also add that although I have often visited Stourtnouth and its neighborhood of which I am very fond my knowledge of the social life of the district is of the smallest, while my knowledge of its municipal and commercial life is nil. Finally, the lamented disappearance of La Gioconda, from the Salon Carr Sof the Louvre, took place when the whole of my manuscript was already in the hands of the printers. May I express a pious hope that this most seductive of women will be safely restored to her former dwelling-place before any copies of my novel are in the hands of the public? Lucas Malet.
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