# How does Lubbock (1921) diagnose a structural fault in War and Peace as a failure to settle its subject, and what visible symptoms does he give that an agent could look for?

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[Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock names the fault 'a confusion of two designs' and 'no centre'. The symptoms he gives are: (1) the two stories stand in none of the relations he looks for (one subordinate to the other, both related to something above them, or a contrast from which something results); (2) the book switches from one to the other upon no apparent principle, at places he says can be marked exactly, more often in the second half; (3) the two are told from different points of view; (4) the material is wasted: neither story is completed and each weakens the other. His own wording of the cause varies (the author was unaware, E2; the author never decided, E13).

[Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock names the fault 'a confusion of two designs' and 'no centre'. The symptoms he gives are: (1) the two stories stand in none of the relations he looks for (one subordinate to the other, both related to something above them, or a contrast from which something results); (2) the book switches from one to the other upon no apparent principle, at places he says can be marked exactly, more often in the second half; (3) the two are told from different points of view; (4) the material is wasted: neither story is completed and each weakens the other. His own wording of the cause varies (the author was unaware, E2; the author never decided, E13).

Curator qualifications: Diagnosis 'a confusion of two designs'; symptoms listed.

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- [sourced_fact] [Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock names the fault 'a confusion of two designs' and 'no centre'. The symptoms he gives are: (1) the two stories stand in none of the relations he looks for (one subordinate to the other, both related to something above them, or a contrast from which something results); (2) the book switches from one to the other upon no apparent principle, at places he says can be marked exactly, more often in the second half; (3) the two are told from different points of view; (4) the material is wasted: neither story is completed and each weakens the other. His own wording of the cause varies (the author was unaware, E2; the author never decided, E13). · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt

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