Peter Conrad: ”Could there, I asked Wood, be such a thing as a religious novel – a book that is positively for God, not against him?”
James Wood: ”Probably not,” he replied. “I can only think of bad Christian novels, like Graham Greene’s. There are mystical novels – To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway – and in The Brothers Karamazov you have something like the iconostasis in a Russian Orthodox cathedral […]”
Citerat ur intervju i The Guardian med kritikern James Wood, som är aktuell med The Nearest Thing to Life (Jonathan Cape). Wood har en sällsynt förmåga att enkelt förklara hur svåra böcker fungerar.
Ola Wihlke
