Misplaced: why do #novelists disguise real locations? (2015)

"...apart from #Faulkner the #modernist #novel forewent, for the most part, the fictitious place. #Joyce’s Dublin, #Bely’s St Petersburg, #Musil’s Vienna, #Döblin’s Berlin, #DosPassos’s Manhattan, Céline’s Paris, #Woolf’s #London were almost overwhelmingly realistic. Was this a reaction to the quaintness of Little Baddington, Glimmerglass Lake, Dotheboys Hall, Pemberley, Tillietudlem and Langdirdum?"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/26/misplaced-why-do-novelists-disguise-real-locations

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