Maugham's Philosophical Views and Their Role in Shaping His Aesthetics
International Journal on Integrated Education, 6 (2):
10-12 (January 2023)Abstract
This article explores the philosophical views of S. Maugham, which influenced the condescension and understanding of the author's personality. William Somerset Maugham is primarily known as a playwright, short story writer, and novelist; he is not a creator of literary theory in the strict sense of the word, but his numerous observations on his own work and that of other writers; his literary criticism of certain Russian and Western classics; his philosophical and aesthetic sketches allow us to speak of him as a major and extraordinary scholar of literature, who offered his original conception of the novel.