V.S. Naipaul: NOT a Friend of Jane
According to the Guardian’s review of V.S. Naipaul’s latest book, it includes the following comment about Jane Austen:
Jane Austen: ‘If the country had failed in the 19th century, no one would have been reading Jane Austen.’
This must be one of those things where you take something out of context and it changes the meaning, because frankly it makes no bally sense to us whatsoever.
Though our Inner 14-Year-Old Smart Aleck is dying to reply, “Yeah, well, good thing the country didn’t fail then, ain’t it?” And then stick its tongue out.
September 5th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I hate him! I have seen an interview of him where he says that he wanted to die when he read Northanger Abbey.