Abstract

This book is a focused study of the specific problem in aesthetics of literature's relation to truth. The authors's treatment of the problem is both expansive and highly nuanced, undoubtedly a result not only of the co-authoring of the book, which by all indications is a true collaborative effort, but also of the fact that the book is the product of a decade of work on the problem. The division of labor for the book, though, is obvious in the treatment of different aspects of the problem. Lamarque is principally responsible for the first two parts of the book, while Olson takes primary responsibility for part three, "Literature and Truth."