Don Quixote

[Malignd]

<<"While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don
Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw–-that of
outright unreadability. This reviewer should know,
because he has just read it. The book bristles with
beauties, charm,
sublime comedy; it is also, for long stretches
(approaching about 75 per cent of the whole),
inhumanly dull.>>

I think one might persume something less than total
seriousness on Amis's part.

He wrote elsewhere, about John Updike, how lucky we
are to have him, in that he's willing to plough
through all those daunting, serious, and unremittingly
dull novels by middle eastern and eastern European
writers that no one else can bring himself to read.  

I think Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir was one example
he gave.



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