“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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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15377 |