... 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 ... allusions with her political theme The most obvious of these is the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the The State and the Novel 35 final page The other is an extended allusion ... of 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...