Four talks in which Graham Hough , Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, considers some of the changes through which the novel has gone during the past hundred years, and where it stands today
4-A Box of Tricks?
' The novelist's interest in technique means a growing sense (among novelists, not readers) that a novel is an ingenious box of tricks, rather than a representation of life. The range and depth of human understanding are lost. The present need is to recapture them.'