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>I'll be joining the camp of message posters who are >writing a dissertation, hoping that you enthusiasts >will have an educated nibble at a dangled question... > >I am looking at 'Flaubert's Parrot' and the statement >it makes on the relationship between literature and >the reader. Does it promote empathy, insight and a >sense of life's possibilities? Or is it a ghetto for >saddos who can't cope with the intimacies and >complexities of real life? Although packaged up to >sound more academic, naturally. Any resources or >ramblings you'd care to supply would be received with >rapture... > >How do you suppose one would actually be able to angle >a conversation with Barnes, short of stalking? Is it >worth sampling the delights of Swindon to see him at a >literary festival I wonder? Musings on this subject, >welcome too. > >Many thanks.

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