Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:41:40 +1000
> Camille, I think the most important thing you said ther was that "we all
> know someone like" Falstaff or Hamlet. In my mind, a great sort of
"test"
> for whether a piece of literature is able to be somehow "universal" is
> whether or not one, as a reader can make connections between the fiction
> they are reading and some aspect of their own lives. I'm convinced that
my
> life has been significantly effected by the characters in the fiction I
> have read. That's what great literature is all about.
>
> I apologize and hope I have made some sense.
>
> Patrick
I agree - and I guess, by implication, those texts which are - dare I say -
UNIVERSAL - are those with which the most people can sympathise. Simple as
that (: That's a good reason why both Shakes and Sal are still read.
Camille
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