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This 5 page paper considers George Lukacs's literary observations in his article "Narrative or Description" and considers how they can apply to a theoretical project. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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his remarks in his article "Narrate or Describe" and how his ideas of binary structure might help or hinder a theoretical project. Discussion In "Narrate or Describe," Lukacs discusses literary
techniques and draws a clear distinction between narration and description. He also believes that "chance" has a part to play in modern fiction, a viewpoint that is often disparaged by
people today who think that coincidence has no part to play in a work of fiction. But Lukacs points out that "[W]ithout chance all narration is dead and abstract. No
writer can portray life if he eliminates the fortuitous" (Lukacs). Lukacs clearly recognizes that there is such a thing as coincidence, and that it operates in peoples everyday lives. However,
he adds a proviso, that a if a writer uses it, "he must go beyond crass accident and elevate chance to the inevitable" (Lukacs). The question then becomes, what constitutes
inevitability? Lukacs gives two examples of very different writing techniques that lead to the same result. He asks the reader to consider the way in which Zola describes the theater
in Nana with Balzacs description in Lost Illusions. He points out that Zola takes several chapters to describe the theater, each time from a different viewpoint: in one, its from
the audience; in another, its from the stage itself; and in still another he considers it during a performance, depicting "scene changes, the dressing-rooms, etc., both during the performance and
the intermissions. And to complete this picture, he describes in yet a third chapter a rehearsal, again with equal conscientiousness and virtuosity" (Lukacs). Balzac does not provide this sort
of "meticulous detail. For him the theatre and the performance serve as the setting for an inner drama of his characters: Luciens success, Coralies theatrical career, the passionate love between
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