Wednesday 29 April 2015

Francine Prose makes a Charlie of herself | Disjointed Ramblings

This morning, I discovered the Grauniad was running a blog post in their Comment is free section, entitled "I admire Charlie Hebdo’s courage. But it does not deserve a PEN award". It is signed by somebody rejoicing in the moniker of Francine Prose. Yeah, I thought so too, but apparently it’s her real name. As far as I can tell, her forte is writing constipated verbiage reminiscent of the more indigestible 20th century French authors…

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