Buckets of Empathy
James Wood, 30 March 2000
On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Yale, 294 pp., £18.95, October 1999,0 300 07991 5 Show More
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Yale, 294 pp., £18.95, October 1999,
“... left in the innocence bank; we are rich on suspicion. In literature, contemporary examples abound. Martin Amis, for instance, offers his own brief allegory of the writer’s modern suspicion in The Information. Richard Tull, a novelist, hears birds singing in his garden, and thinks, mournfully: ‘say birds were just parrots and learned their songs from what ... ”