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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Pretentious novel

Hi

Could you help me understand what is meant by this?

Her last novel is very pretentious.

Although I understand the meaning of the word, I cannot, say, decipher the collocation here. How can a book be pretentious?

Thanks,

Tom

  

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We speak of the writing as if it was the writer.

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We speak of the writing as if it was the writer.

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Mr. TomHer last novel is very pretentious.

I read it as "Her novel gives the reader a false impression of her being artistic or interested in the arts." (She seems to be an arty type of writer.)

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