Be Brave, Be British, Or Both
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Wonderful post by Britlit critic and author Mark Sarvas on literature’s losers. Takes about 20 clickthroughs and a lifetime commitment to Bookforum to see it. Don’t be grim. Here’s a peek:
“It’s hard for me to understand why someone would want to spend their reading hours in the company of the virtuous, the accomplished, and the capable, when failure is so much more interesting—and, sadly, altogether more common. Today, we call them antiheroes (it’s more polite), but to me, they will always be literature’s losers ….”
via The Elegant Variation: LITERATURE’S LOSERS.
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