[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Marxism] Arundhati Roy: An Activist Returns To The Novel]

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 27 08:16:53 PDT 2007


Personally, I find her political essays (I have not read her fiction) to be suffocatingly self-righteous, unreadable. But people here already knew that. :)

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
>
> > It would be easy to absolve Roy if her only fault
> was lack of
> > diplomacy. Her cardinal sin, however, is that she
> is able to clothe
> > her oversimplifications in a seductive sheen of
> authenticity - this is
> > a potentially dangerous skill.
>
> So far you've asserted this, but not elaborated.
> Could you give some
> examples?
>
> Doug
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