‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’
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‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’
Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; that, and to forward each other. Literature alone can’t, of course, save us – Hitler loved Shakespeare, Don Quixote and Gulliver’s Travels; Mussolini grew up being read Les Misérables and wrote a romantic novel about a cardinal and his mistress; Pinochet posed in front of novels by Paulo Coelho – but I do believe that the p…
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