The Broom of the System | Ideas for Group Discussion

It is a commonplace that literature, particularly the novel, is a venue for examining societal trends, to force readers and members of such societies to confront the difficult problems of their times. And with art, a pursuit that is often mistakenly equated with entertainment, this goal is often a difficult one to achieve without losing the intended audience: to make people look at what is harmful and wretched in themselves, what they would rather ignore, is an extremely arduous task, particularly in the world of art, a place where we often come to "escape" our problems. In The Broom...

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