Le Jardin de Berenice

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              <ptr target="ukred-12291">"Thanks for your letter &amp; the book.  A word in reference to the former.  
	I can?t boast that I discovered what purports to be the ""central idea"" of the novel for myself.  I first heard of Barr?s in an article bY Edward Delille in the ""Fortnightly.""  Next I read a criticism of this very book in the latest volume issued of Anatole France?s ""La Vie Litteraire"".  Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent ""Scribner"" on new ideas in French Literature generally in which the name of Barr?s was prominent.
	So when I actually bought the book I knew just what to expect. 
 As I understand the thing, the author is at direct variance with Flaubert, Zola &amp; Guy de Maupassant, who at all costs aim at an impartial, impersonal presentment of life.  He prefers to take a character &amp; describe events and men solely in relation to their effect on that character.  In a word his novel is all hero.  He cares nothing for absolute perspective.  He interests himself in nothing but what affects his hero.  Everything is described through the hero?s eyes, &amp; consequently everything is intentionally coloured &amp; distorted.  He utterly despises the ""one-eyed apathetic insight of the camera"". 
You mention his symbolism.  I believe that the presence of numerous symbols &amp; analogies in the actual writing is only a minor &amp; unimportant manifestation of the symbolist theory.  The whole book in its main outlines is a congeries of symbols. . . "
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