![]() ![]() Modern novels often fail because they are thinner, sparser, less original, less complete. The highest purpose of literature and art is to present a heightened, more intense understanding of the world. Familiarity blunts the originality and value of past novels, he writes. “It has become practically impossible to find new subjects.” In the essay considered last, Gasset takes up this theme with regard to painting. In “Notes on the Novel”, the author considers the exhaustion of the novel form. All the essays were written in the late 1920s and p1930s three of them were published in Partisan Review in translation in 1949-1952. ![]() The titular essay was first published in 1925 it will be treated last because of its importance. Princeton University Press has issued a reprint of a significant work of art history, “The Dehumanization of Art” and four other essays on culture by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955). ![]()
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