Realist Fiction and Propaganda

"Realism" in itself can never do more than confirm the received notions of the "real." The subversive power always resides in an aesthetic denial, in a refusal to bow to the current Lords of Reality--whatever their guise. What better illustration than this?

How "realist" fiction at best, becomes counter-propaganda, waiting to be taken up, as John McCain did last night--turning it into the real thing.

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