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Umberto Rossi wrote:

> 
> Well, I suspect this scheme is just a scheme, i.e. it is schematic, it is
> oversimplified.  And it derives from a certain philosophy of history
> which is surely respectable, i.e. the one devised by Hegel, but is
> not to be acritically accepted today.  Not if one takes into account
> the critic of that philosophy operated by--say--Walter Benjamin (but
> this is just *one* of the radical interrogations of Hegelian theory of
> history in this century).

Sorry, but I just can't see what Hegel has to do with the Flaubert-Joyce
scheme. Could you be more explicit, please?

Larbaud Jr.


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