tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632714125118693426.post1047549430253900113..comments2023-10-04T07:27:11.392-07:00Comments on Malaise Precis: Update on reading Claire Messudmalaiseprecishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559867567783156221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632714125118693426.post-5548733250065821752008-01-07T17:35:00.000-08:002008-01-07T17:35:00.000-08:00Yes, that is true but at the very least it would h...Yes, that is true but at the very least it would have to pass the laugh test. It passed with me but would it have passed with someone else? The Danes or Finns or French or Algerians or any combination thereof?malaiseprecishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559867567783156221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632714125118693426.post-29721512985375975562008-01-05T11:54:00.000-08:002008-01-05T11:54:00.000-08:00"I wondered how an American could write about Fren..."I wondered how an American could write about French Algerians"<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the same way a person who has never lived in New York could write about "New Yorkers", as Messud did in "The Emperor's Children"?<BR/><BR/>Then again, science fiction writers never lived on their planets, so that's why we call it fiction I suppose.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14897020036945541472noreply@blogger.com