“(In fairness, there are also writers who are good at making complex and fully realized human characters but don’t seem able to insert those characters into a believable and interesting plot. Plus others — often among the academic avant-garde — who seem expert/interested in neither plot nor character, whose books’ movement and appeal depend entirely on rarefied meta-aesthetic agendas.)”
DFW, “Joseph Frank’s Dostoyevsky”
Question: Was DFW aware that sometimes his own novels fall into this latter category? Does it matter? Is this quotation spectacularly self-aware, or spectacularly dense?