This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?
“The fascination of what’s difficult,” wrote WB Yeats, “has dried the sap out of my veins …” In the press coverage of this year’s Man Booker prize winner, Anna Burns’s Milkman, we’ve read a good many commentators presenting with sapless veins – but a dismaying lack of any sense that what’s difficult might be fascinating.
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