Patrick NowellSmithIf you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
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Writing in the Old World (nowadays the Old Continent) means to write novels in English. Writing against the Old World (the Old Continent) is to write in English that attacks Western culture, society, or values. Some writers use the Old World as a symbol of the "old ways" of society, which they criticize—for example, by parodying them.
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