Showing posts with label scruples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scruples. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2015

Do Moralists Make Bad Novelists?

Alison McCulloch, reviewing Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's collection of stories called "Invisible Love" in the Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, edition of the New York Times, said Schmitt, in a writer's dairy appended to the stories, argued that moralists make bad novelists.

"When they try, they bring to their reproduction of reality a coldness, a clinical attitude, a dissection of living matter that reeks of the laboratory."


That got me wondering as to what extent my story "Manhattan Morning" deals with moral issues and what that might say about it.