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What treatment or point of view does Lubbock (1921) say would have unified War and Peace, and does he prescribe one?

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[Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock does not give one recipe or prescribe one narrator. He says that under either subject the story would have been far stronger had all the material served it (E1), that an author who had noticed would have devised a scheme including both with a centre (E2), and that the war saga at its own scale would need a whole novel (E3). In ch. IV he removes the interpolated scenes and finds 'one theme and one book' (E10, E11). On method he contrasts the war pictures (the author narrating, onlookers chosen at random) with the youth story (the chosen few's experience), credits the passages where public events are seen through a young character, and says a persisting humane irony would have made Natasha 'the spirit of youth'.

[Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock does not give one recipe or prescribe one narrator. He says that under either subject the story would have been far stronger had all the material served it (E1), that an author who had noticed would have devised a scheme including both with a centre (E2), and that the war saga at its own scale would need a whole novel (E3). In ch. IV he removes the interpolated scenes and finds 'one theme and one book' (E10, E11). On method he contrasts the war pictures (the author narrating, onlookers chosen at random) with the youth story (the chosen few's experience), credits the passages where public events are seen through a young character, and says a persisting humane irony would have made Natasha 'the spirit of youth'. Curator qualifications: No single recipe or narrator prescribed; correctly kept as a negative. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] [Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock does not give one recipe or prescribe one narrator. He says that under either subject the story would have been far stronger had all the material served it (E1), that an author who had noticed would have devised a scheme including both with a centre (E2), and that the war saga at its own scale would need a whole novel (E3). In ch. IV he removes the interpolated scenes and finds 'one theme and one book' (E10, E11). On method he contrasts the war pictures (the author narrating, onlookers chosen at random) with the youth story (the chosen few's experience), credits the passages where public events are seen through a young character, and says a persisting humane irony would have made Natasha 'the spirit of youth'. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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