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Only if it serves as a building block to a better Smiley novel in the future, one in which her brilliant lessons of disillusionment fly faster, because they're spurred on by a bigger, warmer imagination.
Since a loss of faith in the Modernist canon often seems to be paired with a disillusionment with communist teleology, wouldn't championing the essential conservatism of all those Zhdanovists make a dandy short circuit?
In his speech, he says that his Vietnam-Watergate-era disillusionment gave way to a sense that by running for elected office he could help people.
When he was young, Loury's disillusionment with the civil rights movement drove him into neoconservatism.
Scholars agree the defection is likely embarrassing to the Chinese government, but the Chinese government's spin is that "it was due to a split in his movement rather than disillusionment with life in China."