A weblog by Jonathan Ali
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| Notes from a small island A weblog by Jonathan Ali |
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Monday, June 16, 2003 "For VS Naipaul, 'finding the centre' has been an important part of his journey as a writer. Taking my first steps as a writer, I could argue, has involved the inverse process: seeking out the periphery. I find it difficult to fill these words with any meaning. The Muslim world (of which I have written a small section about) is at the centre of our gaze as never before; 'subcontinent' literature (Narayan, Rushdie, now Seth, Mistry and so on) has always been more than a speck on my reading horizon, and many authors are firmly within the literary establishment; and in any case, what do we have, at the notional centre, to set against the periphery - VS Naipaul, writing about Wiltshire?" - Monica Ali, author of the novel Brick Lane in an article entitled "Where I'm coming from", in Tuesday's UK Guardian. posted by Jonathan | 10:57 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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