Fiction and the Poverty of Theory
John Sutherland, 20 November 1986
News from Nowhere
by David Caute.
Hamish Hamilton, 403 pp., £10.95, September 1986,0 241 11920 0 Show More
by David Caute.
Hamish Hamilton, 403 pp., £10.95, September 1986,
“... drag, both of Willie’s Cumberland balls are on pawn in her handbag, and as for your boss little Peter, he’s rushing off to kiss the great Nigerian arse.’ The real problem for a novelist comes with the cast of living public figures firmly under the protection of the English libel law. Clearly, to write a documentary novel about the British Left and its ... ”