【单选题】

As an ambitious writer, Hardy sought to ------- what he considered the authorial ...... of solely recording things exactly as they are; it was his goal, rather to express an awareness of the occult and the strange.
A．(A) maintain... strategy

B．(B) employ... practice
C．(C) transcend ... tedium
D．(D) overcome ... barrier
E．(E) endorse... ruse