Sentence examples for literary illusion from inspiring English sources

The belief that "real" character is revealed in bed is a literary illusion still dying its long death.

Of course this is always an illusion in a literary text, produced by a great deal of contrivance and rewriting.

I don't have any illusions that adding literary passages to multiple-choice tests would instill a love of reading among students by itself.

Can we honestly claim that Animal Farm is more literary than The Book of Illusions just because Orwell's novel conveys a political meaning and Paul Auster's novel doesn't?

It was also an era intoxicated with the notion of reality, and thrilled by the vertiginous confusion of reality with illusion -- an era of literary naturalism and, in the United States, trompe l'oeil painting.

Yet he has no illusions on the subject of literary fame.

The most revered of French novelists recognized the need for P.R. "For artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed," Balzac observed in "Lost Illusions," his classic novel about literary life in early 19th-century Paris.

Often, though, his literary judgments are shallow, and as if to create the illusion of depth, he resorts to a kind of septuagenarian archness.

Readers of literary biographies should long ago have disabused themselves of the illusion that writers learn or wish to learn from their works how to live their lives.

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (Faber, £7.99) Paul Auster got his literary education in Paris, and sometimes in his prose you can catch the trace of a French accent, the rough melody of those nicotine-stained New Wave voiceovers.

The literary life evidently suits Conrad, who for five years has lived in a fabulous truth-illusion netherworld as MTV's most bankable reality-and-tabloid personality.