The British novelist on rereading the classics, his teenage love of outsiders, and discovering the brilliance of Anita Brookner
Hari Kunzru: ‘I am just as enchanted by The Great Gatsby now as when I first read it as an A-level student’’s Narnia series on my bed. But what came before that? I must have had picture books. Babar was around, certainly. So was Noggin the Nog. I have no clear memory.’s The Lord of the Rings. I craved escape, and it was a long enough book to live inside for weeks at a time.Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land had a profound effect on me.
Reading her, after a few contemporary novels by younger writers, is a relief – you’re talking to a grown-up, someone worldly and experienced who has weaned themselves off melodrama.I never used to reread. Then I started teaching and had to think of books I cared about enough to want to discuss with students. Now I reread a lot. I’ve discovered that if I pick up more or less anything I read before I was 30, it’s as if I’m reading it for the first time.
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