- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Vintage (6 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099513226
- ISBN-13: 978-0099513223
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 4.3 x 19.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,019,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'You don't have to read half the books he analyses...to enjoy this engaging book' --Guardian Review
`lots of things here are superb. He tells you about Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy...Thirlwell loves these people, and it shows'
--The Scotsman
`lots of things here are superb. He tells you about Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy...Thirlwell loves these people, and it shows'
--The Scotsman
The Sunday Telegraph
`Miss Herbert is this year's most richly pleasurable reading experience.'
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Out of his depth, yet shallow; showy-offy yet thin; neither scholarship nor art. I must confess to not being a Flaubophile, having been overexposed to his heavy brocade at the Uni, along with Cervantes' flimsy - OH NO, he's on to Cervantes now! (Has anyone else actually read the entire work in Spanish? Other than Spaniards of course - and I wager rather few of them, voluntarily.) T misuses 'quixotic' on p30, by the way; but when he threatens to set his sights on dear inoffensive Georges Perec (p68) alors la I have to part company with him. Who on earth is Thirlwell addressing? He means to dazzle, but he will bore a scholar and bemuse (ie bore!)the common reader. (Of course, he is addressing himself!) Nice pics tho...
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