"I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a writer like CÃ©line or Gottfried Benn without worrying whether they conform to existing notions of political incorrectness."

-- Pankaj Mishra

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