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Product review: Unless you have read tons of fiction - in the original French and Russian - this book of literary (a code word for positively boring and meaningless) criticism is a bunch of poorly written essays that speak to the sad, sorry state of what passes for high-brow literature these days. This is THE reason fiction writers should not write explanatory prose - they can't write clearly, coherently, or concisely. I was assigned this book for a creative writing class, and still do not know what the heck these people are talking about. I'm sure these people are very smart and have great information, but they're just bad writers. The authors' "target audience" is obviously other equally pretentious people, but for even college educated people, this book is a slog fest full of inside, esoteric, litto-babble.
