Tuesday, 13 July 2010

And...

Oddly - synchronistically? - just after publishing the post below, I was idly scanning Saturday's Telegraph Review and came across this. Clearly David Miller also believes that for several decades our women novelists have made a far better fist of things than the men, but he sees it, interestingly, in terms of the women reflecting larger horrors in the outside world 'so much better than the men'. Why so much better? Perhaps because they have reflected those horrors with subtlety, delicacy and (often) humour, unlike such clodhopping 'great writers' as, say, Ian McEwan.
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4 comments:

  1. Brit13 July 2010 at 14:20

    Perhaps many male novelists feel under more pressure to innovate in terms of form.

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  2. Tricia13 July 2010 at 17:38

    You might be right about that - to be innovative in many different ways - but I wonder where the pressure comes from?

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  3. Brit14 July 2010 at 12:34

    PS - "Oddly - synchronistically?..."

    Ah Nige, I see you're a stickler for the correct use of 'ironically' too... :)

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  4. Nige14 July 2010 at 15:45

    Isn't it ironic? (No)

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