
Anglomania
Michael!
Do you ever sleep ? Or is it something they put in your "olde" muesli ? Anyway, in the Department of Clarification, let's deal with what I take to be your two basic points.
1. I'm not going to waste your precious time (and mine) going over the major/minor ground again. My position is that Ian Buruma and Julian Barnes are both important English writers, the former a journalist, the latter a novelist. In the scheme of things, exactly how important they are is, of course, beyond our competence. But their work--their new books, these two books under discussion--is always, I thought I was saying, of significance. If these are "minor works," I dread to think what kind of exchange we'd have about major ones!
2. Your "defense" of Buruma passed me by. I think I was dazzled by the bright beam of your prose.
Your application to the Groucho Club is not imperiled, though I think some of the intellectuals who gather at the bar will be rather intimidated by a writer who seems actually to have read the books he holds forth about!
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