Currently reading: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel by René Girard 📚

“The great novelists reveal the imitative nature of desire. In our days its nature is hard to perceive because the most fervent imitation is the most vigorously denied. Don Quixote proclaimed himself the disciple of Amadis and the writers of his time proclaimed themselves the disciples of the Ancients. The romantic vaniteux does not want to be anyone’s disciple. He convinces himself that he is thoroughly original.