![]() ![]() Kevin Hilliard's remarks (Letters, April 14) about Geoff Dyer's review of James Attlee's Isolarion ("East Oxford flâneur", April 7) suggest that his real issue is the exception he takes to Dyer's question: whether someone from within Oxford's walls could do as well as Attlee has in capturing life in the street below the walls. ![]() However, if, as Walter suggests, McEwan's political views do impinge on his latest novel, then surely one has every right to allow these to impinge on one's judgment of the same. Céline's early and ideologically ambiguous masterpieces, for instance, can thus mercifully be considered outwith his subsequent anti-Semitic rants. This argument may be justified where a novelist's politics do not obviously impinge on his creative writing. "You cannot judge a novelist for his political views," writes Natasha Walter in her review of Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach ("Young love, old angst", March 31). ![]()
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