With Ford, even praise... «Through the Window»
Oksident17 января 2017With Ford, even praise somehow turned itself to his disadvantage. In his preface to a 1927 reissue of The Good Soldier, he recounts the story of an admirer telling him it was ‘the finest novel in the English language’. To which Ford’s friend John Roker rejoined, ‘Ah, yes, it is. But you have left a word out. It is the finest French novel in the English language.’
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