Updike must work to establish the quiddity of his character
I totally forgot the meaning of quiddity :(
a truly awful excerpt from Terrorist follows
His stories, through written technically in authorial third person, seem to emanate from a community of Sicilian peasants; they are thick with proverbial sayings, truisms, and homely similes.
Might 'stupid' reflect a slight asperity or distance on the part of the author? Or does the word belong wholly to the character, with the author, in a rush of sympathy, having 'handed' it, as it were, to the tearful fellow?
on the sentence 'Ted watched the orchestra through stupid tears'. an example of free indirect style
A novelist's omniscience soon enough becomes a kind of secret sharing; this is called free indirect style, a term novelists have lots of different nicknames for--'close third person', or 'going into character'.
the interface between critical discourse and the heteroglossic "sublime" otherness of the novels
