![]() My premise is that the language of politics can’t accommodate the complexity of fiction, which as a mode of thought is intuitive, metaphysical, mythic.” ”To call a novel political today is to label it, and to label it is to refuse to deal with what it does. ”To think that I am writing to advance a political program misses the point,“ he says. He is equally adamant that he does not write documentary fiction or the historical novel. Others may see in his work an ideology or political statement he does not. ![]() For him, the artistic commitment of being a novelist is primary. “Where mythology and history converge, that’s where I start my novels,” he says.Ībove all a novelist, Doctorow has rejected easy labels, political tags, ideological affiliations, and literary descriptions over the past thirty-five years. Nor does he believe in the absolute sanctity of historical fact. ![]() Doctorow does not believe in the idea of progress. ![]()
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