ENG370H1 Lecture Notes - Jerusalem Prize, Dialectic
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Direct representation: she though, after i"ve handed in my essay, i"m going to the cinema. " . Indirect representation: he would hand in his essay, and afterwards he"d go to the cinema". We have art, said nietzsche, so that we shall not die of the truth. In south africa there is now too much truth for art to hold, truth by the bucketful, truth that overwhelms and swamps every act of the imagination : j. m coetzee, jerusalem prize acceptance speech (1987)
