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This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Julian Barnes

Literature, Turns

Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.15, Random House

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

Book, Literature, Hawthorne

"Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011.