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  • Paul Kincaid

    • Howard Jacobson has an interesting polemic about comedy in serious fiction in the Guardian. I was particularly struck by this sentence:

    But we have created a false division between laughter and thought, between comedy and seriousness, between the exhilaration that the great novels offer when they are at their funniest, and whatever else it is we now think we want from literature.

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