Brits can't hack it - official!

[Ya Sam]

Lazy me, still can't get down to some books waiting for me on the big 
mahogany shelf prepared specially for future reads. Among these books is one 
by the British author Nicholas Mosley called 'Hopeful Monsters", from what 
I've heard it's one of those complex novels that combine scientific ideas 
with literary mastery. Anyone read it?


>From: "Paul Nightingale" <isread at btopenworld.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Brits can't hack it - official!
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:29:19 +0100
>
>McEwan and Ishiguro are probably still the 'most famous' graduates of
>Bradbury's UEA course. If anything has changed since the time of the
>interview (1990) it's the greater presence of creative writing courses in
>British universities (UEA was a pioneer, and Bradbury should be given 
>credit
>for that). Nonetheless the Brits are still suspicious (and I don't know if
>I'm reading that into the interview or not); they tend to think 'real'
>writers don't have to be taught, and one reason why TRP et al are less
>popular here is that such writing can be denounced as affected (and I've
>heard the same said of Ulysses). Having said that, of course, Ishiguro 
>yokes
>Britain and the rest of Europe together in their reluctance to run creative
>writing courses (I've no idea how the rest of Europe has moved on since
>1990); whereas, from the pov of British realism, the European novel might
>also be thought affected.
>
>
>

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