Will Self - The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critic...

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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

Will Self

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Die britische und die amerikanische Literaturwelt arbeiten in einer seltsamen Art von Symbiose: Unsere Kritiker glauben, dass unsere zeitgenössischen Romanautoren kein Stoff der Größe sind, während bestimmte Amerikaner der Gegenwart zweifelsohne dies sind. Ihre Kritiker behaupten oft das genaue Gegenteil: Britische Fiktion ist cool, amerikanischer Naff.

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