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Anthony Burgess on his ideal reader

By Scott Granneman / 19 November 2010 / art, language & literature, on writing, politics, religion / art, writing

From John Cullinan’s interview of Anthony Burgess in “The Art of Fiction No. 48” (The Paris Review: Spring 1973, No. 56):

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, color-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read. He should also be about my age.

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