This was in today's
Writer's Almanac. It's a quote from Nigerian novelist Ben Okri: "Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer.... The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. ...Literature may come from a specific place but it always lives in its own unique kingdom."
Wow, that's loaded.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if certain world leaders got together in a book discussion group, they'd communicate better than by using the specialized language of political negotiation.
The question is, what book should they be assigned... :-)
Wow, great question. A possible starting point?
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me! Oh to be a fly on the wall at such a reading group...
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