Theodosis and Paranoia

The novel was admired by the romantics, not so much for his power of story telling, but for two reasons. It showed how a man can take himself in hand, and by the free exercise of his noble and un trained will, makes himself into something. This is presumedy gete's creative autobiography as an artist. They also liked that there wre very sharp transitions in this novel, from a piece of sober prose or some scientific description of, say, the temperature of water. These sharp transitions appear to them to be a marvellous weapon for the purpose of blowing up an overset reality. The business of a work of art is to liberate us. And it liberates us