Friday, 14 March 2008
The Greatest
On the back of a Borges book upstairs is the inferred recommendation of "Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize." I'd suggest for publishers and critics a host of eye-catching variations for their book reviews such as "Probably the greatest author never to win Olympic gold for the high-jump." Or, "Probably the greatest author never to be jailed for tax-evasion." "Probably the greatest author never to run a sub-four minute mile." Perhaps even, "Probably the greatest author never to write anything particularly good."
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4 comments:
What about "The greatest living author never to have been published..."
(sounds a bit like the realisation of my most dreaded fantasies!)
D.
Wonderful, good antitode to lying advertisements and glowing blurbs for novels that turn out to be, at best, okay.
volte-face: Finest high jumper to ever complete a work of fiction about cowboy junkies?
Who are you calling volte-face? I'll grant you that the field of possibilities would seem to expand enormously with that angle on the issue.
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