INTERVIEWER You have said elsewhere that the authors you have learned most from were Jane Austen and Proust. What did you learn from Jane Austen technically? FORSTER I learned the possibilities of domestic humor. I was more ambitious than she was, of course; I tried to hitch it on to…
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E. M. Forster, in his 1927 book “Aspects of the Novel,” presented the concept of “round” versus “flat” characters. He generally preferred the former to the latter except when the purpose was to arouse feelings of “humour” or “appropriateness,” maintaining that flat characters, comprised of a single idea or “factor,”…