![]() ![]() What I set down here is true until someone else passes that way and rearranges the world in his own style.” ![]() Steinbeck seems later to have thrown up his hands in despair at the prospect, as he retreats into subjectivism: “I feel that there are too many realities. Otherwise, in writing, I could not tell the small diagnostic truths which are the foundations of the large truth.” But the riddle is to figure out which truths are diagnostic and which distractions. Steinbeck addresses this in his opening salvo: “So it was I decided to look again, to try to rediscover this monster land. Travel literature, by its nature, finds itself in a paradoxical position: to search for truth by becoming briefly acquainted with a wide and disconnected series of experiences. This little volume must rank as one of the great American travel books-though I am not quite sure what that means. In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck In the Heat: Elche… on Alicante & the Island of…Ģ023: New Year… on In the Heat: Elche & … Jaca: A Slightly Uns… on A Highly Unsuccessful Jou… Reflections on Readi… on Ancient Cities: Istanbul ![]()
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