One idea George Saunders brings up in A Swim In A Pond in the Rain is the notion that fiction is a damned poor vehicle for an author to make philosophical or political arguments. While certainly an author's ideas and tastes and Utopias will spill into creative work, the characters have to drive the abstractions into the story, not the other way around.
Polemics and Fiction
Polemics and Fiction
Polemics and Fiction
One idea George Saunders brings up in A Swim In A Pond in the Rain is the notion that fiction is a damned poor vehicle for an author to make philosophical or political arguments. While certainly an author's ideas and tastes and Utopias will spill into creative work, the characters have to drive the abstractions into the story, not the other way around.