Can an Mise-en-scène / aethetisicm focused piece of writing (novel for example) ever be as distinguised as a dramatic novel.
Wilde and Keroauc famously championed art over life, but is it possible to create a novel in this style that is on the same level as, say Moby Dick. Are we forever doomed to always rank "human / effectively grounded" books above primarily experimentally inclined ones?