VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Broga|DATE|1357760825|CONTENT|@Edwin:  It looks that way to me.  An example I would put forward is Structuralism and Post Structuralsim and Moderism and Post Modernism and the cult of Jacques Derrida and others.   I know that the reader has to bring something fundamental to the work but their theories leave me cold.  In my simple way I enjoy a strong narrative, characters I can understand and a story I can become absorbed in.  Some of the obsurities of the literary intelligentsia are both beyond my comprehension, alien to my interest and dwelling on them would ruin a novel for me.

Ernest Hemingway, an advocate of the short and simple sentence, (imbued in him from his days as a journalist) was asked about the symbolism in &quot;The Old Man and the Sea&quot; and how he came to develop that and insert it in his novel.   He is supposed to have said, &quot;Until I read some of the critics I didn&#039;t know it was there.&quot;   |EMAIL|denis.watkins1@virgin.net|IP-ADDRESS|86.31.208.19|MODERATIONFLAG|