«The author approaches the David story as an imaginative writer, giving play to that dialectical fullness of conception that leads the greatest writers (Shakespeare, Stendhal, Balzac, Tolstoy, Proust, to
name a few
apposite instances) to transcend the limitations of their own ideological points of departure,» Alter states.
But, and this is as annoying as it is paradoxical, the spectacular uselessness of the
name, its complete lack of any descriptive component, turned out to be curiously
apposite.