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The Novel that Unravels Democracy
Past Present Future
The Disillusioned Communist
This is ultimately a great humanist novel because his sympathies seem to be able to go everywhere. I think it helps that he's writing as a disillusioned communist. Once you have a Deus Ex-Mashina in your plots, well, then anything can happen. Then you're on a tightrope of preachiness, which can also kill a novel,. So steering between these two is very, very difficult and aesthetic as well as political or climate change matter.
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