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Global Versus Local Literature – How Our Global Culture Changes The Context Of What We’re Reading

WORDS Posted: July 16, 2014 8:53 am

“If, then, when nations were forming, writers began to address their work to a national audience, wouldn’t it be logical that now, in a period of intense globalisation, they might think of their books from the start as being destined to travel beyond national borders? Hardly noticing the shift perhaps, the novelist begins to have a foreign audience in mind.”

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Read the story in Financial Times

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