Author(s): Robert VIVIAN
This article uses the image of stalking an elephant as a way to describe what writing novels is like: along with this metaphor, the author describes the dreaming of the novel and how the writer attempts to live inside the wide-awake fictive dream in order to flesh out his imagined world with the aid of what he calls his “inmost reader,” another metaphor for the invisible guide he feels leads every writer of fiction toward the realization of a completed work.
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