[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[joanna]

Well, but there was Alan Sillitoe -- "Loneliness of the Long Distance 
Runner" and Doris Lessing may not have toed the party line but what she 
had to say about party, class, colonialism, and leftist delusions was 
true and interesting.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


>Guardian (London) - July 7, 2007
><http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2120934,00.html>
>
>Only Pinter remains
>British literature's long and rich tradition of politically engaged  
>writers has come to an end
>
>Terry Eagleton
>
>For almost the first time in two centuries, there is no eminent  
>British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the  
>foundations of the western way of life. One might make an honourable  
>exception of Harold Pinter, who has wisely decided that being a  
>champagne socialist is better than being no socialist at all; but his  
>most explicitly political work is also his most artistically dreary.
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