Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Literary legends

Some are writers and some, storytellers. Have I said this before? It sounds a bit déjà vu-ic. I probably will harp on this everytime I come across one or the other. You see, very few are both. Those that are, are the true literary legends. Nobel Prize winners for literature should be judged by this yardstick, not by body of work. Rushdie - great writer, awful storyteller. Jeffery Archer - great storyteller, decent writer; as is Khaled Hosseini. I am struggling to think of one who is both – Shakespeare, Joyce, Naipaul? Maybe I haven’t read enough. Any suggestions?

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