Does Serious Literature Need Likable Characters?
Posted on May 24th, 2013 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Serious novelist (the Sontag-ian hair is a tipoff) Claire Messud says, quite the contrary. An interesting discussion on Slate (no, not an oxymoron) about literary merit and literary accessibility.
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5/25/2013 4:13 pm
We haven’t moved beyond the time when women not dyeing their gray hair was viewed as a statement?
5/28/2013 2:08 pm
Hmmm…I’m going to say no. A couple years ago a Harvard woman whose name I can’t remember wrote an entire book on her decision to let her hair go grey. (We covered it at 02138 magazine.) It was all about feminism and the politics of aging….
5/29/2013 3:44 pm
I didn’t think their hair was much alike-different haircuts, length, part, etc-with the exception of being dark with grey. To think every female writer/academic who has dark hair and goes partly grey signals a Sontag-ian association seems over the top.