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Travels into the dark side
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JOHN SUTHERLAND
Learning about life through novels
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“Much of our mental furniture comes from tictiorx' insists the chair of last year's Booker panel, John Sutherland. Our ideas about science stem largely from science fiction; James Bond tells us about the Cold War. and we gain impressions )t World War 1 from Pat Barker or Sebastian Faulks. In his new book. Hon to Read a Novel. Sutl‘erland explores our relationship with fiction and the power it has on us. 'People ‘r.‘.rrrte about human relationships and we pick up our models ot behaviour through their ‘.'.'ords. Through hove s we learn what we enioj..' But. according to Sutherland. like picking up lTlOllO‘,‘ in the street'. using fiction as a touchstone is something no one \.'.'ants to admit to.
Plus, he holds that academic literary criticism has little place in the appreciation of fiction. ‘lvlost narriting is read in a norr curricular way. Dickens sells 1.5m copies a year —- more than '30 times the number sold in his Irtetrrrre and those are sold to the neople who watched the adaptation of Bleak Hot/se. not to students. People (2 int want to be told what to think by sorrre inorj. l0‘.‘.’€‘t'l the; want to make up their minds. lt arr academic turned up in a reading group. he‘d be :ar'reu. t'eathered. and lucked out.“ rKatie Gould?
Recommended Reading: Stephen Sper‘se'. the authorrrea nrstoh. .‘.'t‘.Ct‘ we" the \'."itbread tergraph. nr'ixe l".
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