Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:44:13 AM No.24553977
>And here are six novelists and short-story writers whom I feel I do not need to read again:
>* Graham Greene, whose combination of leftwing politics and Catholicism has never worked for me.
>* Alice Munro, whose stories of infidelity in provincial Canada have always seemed to me of limited interest.
>* George Orwell, whose great work was in the essay, and whose novels, apart from the famous and politically useful Nineteen Eighty-Four, fail to come alive.
>* Toni Morrison, with whose novels I have never had any luck, and have concluded are more for teaching than reading.
>* Jonathan Franzen, who seems in his fiction to write about people to whom he can feel superior.
>* S. Y. Agnon, four of whose novels I’ve read, always with high expectation, never with satisfaction, though I am told he is a writer who must be read in the Hebrew in which he wrote.
based!
>* Graham Greene, whose combination of leftwing politics and Catholicism has never worked for me.
>* Alice Munro, whose stories of infidelity in provincial Canada have always seemed to me of limited interest.
>* George Orwell, whose great work was in the essay, and whose novels, apart from the famous and politically useful Nineteen Eighty-Four, fail to come alive.
>* Toni Morrison, with whose novels I have never had any luck, and have concluded are more for teaching than reading.
>* Jonathan Franzen, who seems in his fiction to write about people to whom he can feel superior.
>* S. Y. Agnon, four of whose novels I’ve read, always with high expectation, never with satisfaction, though I am told he is a writer who must be read in the Hebrew in which he wrote.
based!
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