Action and Suffering
Marilyn Butler, 16 April 1981
Ideas and the Novel
by Mary McCarthy.
Weidenfeld, 121 pp., £4.95, February 1981,9780297778967 Show More
by Mary McCarthy.
Weidenfeld, 121 pp., £4.95, February 1981,
“... leading intellectuals, is just not very interesting about radicalism in Felix Holt the Radical. French novelists continue to mull over the French Revolution, English novelists do not. Recalling that Hegel once dubbed Napoleon ‘an idea on a horse’, Miss McCarthy suggests that the Continent’s advantage may be due to ... ”