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|Realism,Fantasy and the Novel Form |
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|That the novel must be hinged on, reality has been a contentious issue for decades and since the inception of the written |
|form. Among connoisseurs of literature, there are diverse schools of thought; the fantasy school, the disciples of realism and|
|that of faction, that is, an admixture of realism and fantasy. |
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|The reality group is consistent by being irrevocably bent on the dictum that that a novel should and must, if it still want to|
|be relevant in the spheres of man, reflect realism by drawing inspiration from society. |
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|This can be done by exhibiting in a novel what a thing really is and what it manifests. To buttress this, they argue that |
|literature must show the immediacy of hunger, cold pain, neglect, love economic depravation. etc., in...