Interesting essay
Sep. 4th, 2007 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's rather hard to believe this is from the same man who wrote the nonsense that was Courtship of Princess Leia, but his own work notwithstanding (and granted, I haven't read any of his other books...) I certainly agree with his philosophy on quality literature. Never has a genre become so subtly and gradually limited and unpalatable over time as the supposedly genre-less field of "high literature." No wonder people consider their work to be truly great if only a tiny group of people can actually stand to read it. How sad.
It's rather hard to believe this is from the same man who wrote the nonsense that was Courtship of Princess Leia, but his own work notwithstanding (and granted, I haven't read any of his other books...) I certainly agree with his philosophy on quality literature. Never has a genre become so subtly and gradually limited and unpalatable over time as the supposedly genre-less field of "high literature." No wonder people consider their work to be truly great if only a tiny group of people can actually stand to read it. How sad.
