"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.“


-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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