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description: Excerpt from Aspects of Fiction: And Other Ventures in CriticismFrench literature has not a little of the mod eration and of the charm of Greek literature. It is not violent; it is not boisterous, even; it is never freakish. It has balance and order and a broad sanity. It has an unfailing sense of style. It has lightness of touch, and it has also and always intellectual seriousness. The literature is like the language; and Voltaire declared that what was not clear was not French. And the language itself is the fit in strument of the people who use it and who have refined it for their needs - a people logi cal beyond all others, gifted in mathematics, devoid of hypocrisy, law-abiding, governed by the social instinct, inheritors of the Latin tra dition and yet infused with the Celtic spirit.
language: English
title: Aspects of Fiction and Other Ventures in Criticism
titlecomplete: Aspects of Fiction and Other Ventures in Criticism
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publisher: Literature House