Sentence examples for novelistic characters from inspiring English sources

In more conventional fiction, stuffed with conventional novelistic characters, the reader is allowed to overhear the thoughts of other people.

By James Wood With an odd combination of respect and revenge, the best of these memoirists turn their fathers into novelistic characters.

Miss Jean Brodie is probably one of the "best-loved" novelistic characters in postwar British fiction, and one of the very few to be something of a household name.

Their innovation and their mistake is to shunt "real people" into the tales, thrusting psychological complexity into a form that never was meant to deal in rounded novelistic characters.

All three are vibrant storytellers, alert to scene and detail, almost sickeningly sensitive to the way that large male egos stage themselves: they know that, in some odd combination of respect and revenge, they are turning their fathers into novelistic characters.

There is no such thing as "a novelistic character".

And the novelistic character is the very Houdini of that exceptionalism.

Jeffrey Eugenides and Colm Toibin, both novelists, recently sat down to talk virtually about work, ideas and the creation of novelistic character.

This is great, myth-defying history enhanced with a novelistic eye for character.

They lend a novelistic sense of character to Mr. Schlesinger's most enduring connections.

By 1953, Updike had set on its novelistic track the character whose story would occupy him for almost fifty years.