"This is the paradox of literature, which is also the glory of humanism: the idea that nothing human..."

“This is the paradox of literature, which is also the glory of humanism: the idea that nothing human is alien to any of us, that we all have the power to imagine our way into one another’s lives.”

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Adam Kirsch, Elena Ferrante and the Power of Appropriation

Perhaps doubly relevant, considering the treatment of Lionel Shriver at the Brisbane Writers Festival. How dare Ferrante write about the lives of Neapolitans when she didn’t grow up there?

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/151331672987