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Sit,-The matter, is: not’ in itselfe-very important, ; perhaps, bat, in the interests of accuraty, I would like to draw attention to}a Listener note on a recent 4YC broadcast of a Balzac programme of mine. The note said that I "claim that Balzac ‘was an Existentialist without knowing it.’" Not only does such a phrase not occur anywhere in my script, but, on the contrary, part of the progtamime was devoted to demonstrating that, in contradistinction to modern Existentialist fiction, Balzac’s novels show the inadequacies of Sartrian Existentialist concepts, and reveal Balzac as a great Essentialist novelist. ‘The: distinction is, I assure the writer of the note, by no means an unimportant one.
J. C.
REID
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 5
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118ESSENTIAL DISTINCTION New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 5
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