Tram Town
Sunday, July 16, 2006
| Category: Littuhchah Most TramTown readers will probably have heard of the prank played by the children who work at the Oz whereby they sent a chapter from a Patrick White novel to a variety of publishers and it was both unrecognised and rejected by all. The obvious conclusion is that the publishers are illiterate swine. Fortunately, the article goes on to consider other conclusions. This in particular met with my approval: [Nicholas Hudson of Hudson Publishing] told Inquirer he recalled reading the manuscript and was being kind in his letter. "I was trying to be polite. I thought is was pretentious fart-arsery. I don't like White".The interesting thing is that the novel "clinched his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, with the judges describing it as one of his most accomplished works". Well perhaps not so interesting, after all, Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat both got Nobel prizes. Read the whole thing (the article not the novel). |
