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College news, December 16, 1953
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1953-12-16
serial
Weekly
4 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 40, No. 10
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
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Wednesday, December 16, 1953
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Page Three
The Readers And The Novel Comprise
Topic Of Guillen’s Lecture On Tuesday
especially contributed by
Mary Hoak, °54
On Tuesday afternoon The Span-|
ish Club presented Senor Claudio
Guillen, from Princeton, who spoke
in the Common Room. His sub-
ject was “La novel y su lector”.
Senor Guillen first discussed the
problem involved in studying the
novel.
There are, he said, many types
of novels and, although many
people classify all prose works as
novels, it is necessary to distin-
guish among and to limit this field
in order really to understand the
novel.
Senor Guillen concentrated on
the relation between the novel and
the reader and showed the great
power which the novel has over
the audience. The Creation of a
fictitious world comes to the read-!
er as a reality; the novel has the
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power to change his life at the mo-
ment in which he is reading.
The novel serves as a means of
escape from one’s own: life. Dis-
content in our own lives makes us
search for another world; this
world may be found in the novel.
It provides us with a means: of
dreaming, while awake.
Senor Guillen compared the nov-
elist with Don Juan; he is a con-
queror who tries to charm his
public as the famous Don Juan
tried to conquer the many women.
In his consideration of the novel,
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Glee. Clubs Sing Clearly,
Gaining Real Purpose
Continued from Page 1
clever, light, and merely pretty
songs which formed most of the
he showed the importance of the
novel as a means of studying man-
kind, and emphasized how it pro-
vides a way of explaining why man
acts as he does.
Literature, including the novel,
reflects one of the fundamental
problems considered today, of what
man is apd what he wants to be.
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