Currently there is a discussion around about Jonathan Franzen and his novel "Freedom." Seems he is an extremely unlikeable fellow but by all accounts the novel is terrific as was his previous one, "Corrections." And from your story, it looks like I have clearly made a good choice. Seek the art, not the artist.
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On 12-Oct-10, at 3:43 AM, Veronica Caley wrote:As have many novelists, instrumentalists and actors. I would never try to physically go near them. What for?Fortunately, I learned my lesson about approaching revered artists vicariously (thank goodness) through an account by someone writing in the Guardian Weekly.This journalist, vacationing somewhere on the coast (of ???), spotted someone standing out on a spit of land and, on nearer approach, recognized him from publicity photographs."I say, you're Arthur Ransome, aren't you.?" Upon receiving a mumbled assertion, the journalist plucked up the courage to continue, " I just want to thank you for all the pleasure you brought to my childhood through your books."To which AR replied: "Sod off!" Chris Bruce, who can only imagine what a meeting with Iris Murdoch would have been like, in Kiel, Germany -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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