... anglophobe’, The State and the Novel 15 who feels the British, lacking ‘literature, culture, language and manners’, flatter themselves as the liberators of the French (it is the French and the Americans ... the novel, and the uncertainty about character and motivation that accompanies it. But since that sense of limitation and uncertainty stems from the state of the nation the novel discovers, then ... Chapter 1 The State and the Novel The name that comes most readily to mind in a consideration of the state and the novel is George Orwell. His two most famous...