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Edmund Fuller in an article on Snow comments pertinently on an important aspect of his method of characterisation:
Snow as novelist can see all around a man, as one might walk around a Henry Moore sculpture, noting its holes and distortions, but also its proportions and solidities.1
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Edmund Fuller, Books with Men Behind Them (New York: Random House, 1962), p. 108.
Malcolm Bradbury, Possibilities: Essays on the State of the Novel (Oxford: OUP Paperbacks, 1974), p. 204.
Bernard Bergonzi, ‘The World of Lewis Eliot’, Twentieth Century, 167 (1960) 217.
Pamela Hansford Johnson, ‘Three Novelists and the Drawing of Character: C.P. Snow, Joyce Cary and Ivy Compton-Burnett’, Essays and Studies (London, 1950) p. 82.
C.P. Snow, Strangers and Brothers, now re-titled George Passant (London: Penguin, 1962) p. 310.
C.P. Snow, Time of Hope (London: Penguin, 1962), p. 247.
C.P. Snow, Review of English Literature, 3 (July 1962) 99.
C.P. Snow, In Their Wisdom (New York: Scribner, 1974) p. 304.
C.P. Snow, The Conscience of the Rich (London: Penguin, 1966) p. 76.
C.P. Snow, The Light and the Dark (New York: Scribner, 1947) p. 91.
C.P. Snow, Trollope: His Life and Art (New York: Scribner, 1975) p. 155.
Frederick Karl, C.P. Snow: The Politics of Conscience (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1963).
Charles Brady, ‘The British Novel Today’, Thought, 30 (1959–60) 537.
C.P. Snow, The Affair (London: Penguin, 1970), p. 144.
Derek Stanford, ‘Report from London’, Western Review, 21 (summer 1959) 293.
C.P. Snow, ‘Science, Politics and the Novelist’, Kenyon Review, 23 (winter 1961) 1.
C.P. Snow, Review of English Literature, 3 (July 1962) 104.
Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing in A Dance to the Music of Time, Vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1951) p. 1.
C.L. Barber, The Story of Language (London: Pan Books, 1964) p. 211.
Geoffrey Wagner, ‘Sociology and Fiction’, Twentieth Century, 167 (Feb 1960) 110.
C.P. Snow, Homecomings (London: Penguin, 1966) p. 217.
Pamela Hansford Johnson, ‘Modern Fiction and the English Understatement’, TLS, 7 Aug 1959, p. 111.
C.P. Snow, The New Men (London: Penguin, 1970) p. 154.
C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power (London: Penguin, 1972) p. 332.
Peter Fison, ‘A Reply to Benard Bergonzi’s “World of Lewis Eliot” ’, Twentieth Century, 167 (1960) 568.
C.P. Snow, Last Things (London: Macmillan, 1970) p. 221.
C.P. Snow, ‘Svevo: Forerunner of Cooper and Amis’, Essays and Studies (London, 1961) p. 15.
C.P. Snow, The Sleep of Reason (London: Penguin, 1971) p. 89.
Jack Story, ‘Lid off the Lords’, Listener, 10 Oct 1974, p. 482.
Rayner Heppenstall, The Fourfold Tradition (London: Barrie, 1961) p. 236.
Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear (London: Penguin, 1965) p. 156.
A. Macdonald, ‘Imagery in Snow’, University Review, 33 (1966) 32.
Anthony Burgess, ‘Powers That Be’, Encounter, 24 (1965) 74.
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Ramanathan, S. (1978). Characterisation and style. In: The Novels of C. P. Snow. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03671-4_6
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