Still pondering over the implications of a reported remark by a literature lecturer that there is no definitive post-World War II British literary canon.
50-60 springs are little room, I suspect, for canon formation - look at how long it took for the standard Vict-lit canon to be established - was there not a period when George Eliot (George Eliot! ( Read more... )

Reading seems to be the new something or other, really, doesn't it my dearios? rather than DED. What with those books that are people writing about their lives + some great author or work, or this person who wrote a book about working his way through one of those lists of Wot Everybody Ort 2 Reed.

Though when the reviewer claims as 'unread Greats: ( Read more... )

What I read

Finished Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, which was rather different from Purple Hibiscus in being more diffuse, more located in public events (even if via their impact on individuals), several viewpoints, etc, but still very good, though warning for harrowing episodes during the Biafra period (most characters are Igbo, or else Biafran- ( Read more... )