“I just tell the bloody truth, as I see it”: James Kelman’s A Disaffection, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Melancholy Knowledge
The assertion by the troubled teacher Patrick Doyle – “I just tell the bloody truth, as I see it” (p. 112) – in James Kelman’s novel A Disaffection goes to the heart of Kelman’s own aesthetic of showing things as they are. However, the qualifying clause – “as I see it” – also suggests that truth is...
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