【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