はじめのお題: 50字から70字程度の日本語に要約しなさい。 Needless to say, any estimate of a modern novel is valueless unless it is based on knowledge of the great work of the past ; but at the same time our estimates of the great work of the past are always being altered, however slightly, in the light of the novels of the present.
For, in fact, all literature, both of the past and of today, exists as it were in an eternal present. We speak of the tradition of the novel, but tradition is not a dead thing, the classics, not so many books behind the glass of the Victorian book-case. Tradition is a liveing force, which changes as it takes in more and more work of the present.
but at the same time our estimates of the great work of the past are always being altered, however slightly, in the light of the novels of the present.
Needless to say, any estimate of a modern novel is valueless unless it is based on knowledge of the great work of the past ; but at the same time our estimates of the great work of the past are always being altered, however slightly, in the light of the novels of the present.
For, in fact, all literature, both of the past and of today, exists as it were in an eternal present. We speak of the tradition of the novel, but tradition is not a dead thing, the classics, not so many books behind the glass of the Victorian book-case. Tradition is a liveing force, which changes as it takes in more and more work of the present