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In his early essay “Style as Craftsmanship,” Roland Barthes observes that the value of the novel has been determined, since Flaubert, “not by virtue of what it exists for, but thanks to the work it has cost … [the writer] roughs out, cuts, polishes, and sets his form exactly as a jeweller extracts art from his material.” Writers, Barthes says, “form a kind of guild … in which work expended on form is the sign and the property of a corporation.” READ MORE >>
