cry ‘fantasy escapist’ compared novel echo older cry novels ‘escapist’ — Tom Shippey, Road Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology Tom Shippey

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The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

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