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“Explaining Is Where We All Get Into Trouble”: Anti-Philosophical Philosophies in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Novels

“Explaining is where we all get into trouble,” affirms Richard Ford’s anti-hero Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter. Frank spends however a great deal of the novel explaining why explanation must be avoided, and why life must be not interpreted, but rather lived. This position may be compared to Nick...

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Main Author: Manning, Nicholas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Association française d'Etudes Américaines (AFEA) 2020
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.15377
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/ll48
https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15377
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