![]() “He’s clearly going out of his way to keep it from people. When friends who are famous novelists wrote adoring letters to him, begging him to consider writing a novel, his correspondence shows he either ignored their requests or asked them, somewhat deceptively, what on earth he would write about. ![]() “He finds that there is a failure in the project of fiction if your intent is to change the world.” He now thinks Said’s conclusion that “for those who feel the drive to bring about political change, the novel is not the best vehicle to do it” is a conclusion born partly out of his own experiences as an unsuccessful writer of fiction.īy then, Said had discovered firsthand the challenges authors face when attempting a political intervention by writing novels – but chose to keep this potentially embarrassing personal insight a secret, along with his unpublished manuscripts. “I think he finds there to be huge drawbacks to writing novels,” says Brennan. Photograph: Courtesy of the Said Family Collection ![]() Edward Said, second left, Listening to his father. ![]()
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