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Eleanor Catton on Literature and Elitism • Metro Magazine
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Art & Design. Film & TV. Best of Auckland 2015. Simon Wilson’s Auckland. Fashion & Shopping. Eleanor Catton on Literature and Elitism. On December 9, 2013. 8220;Consumerism, requiring its products to be both endlessly desirable and endlessly disposable, cannot make sense of art, which is neither.”. For several weeks now, the dinnertime conversation in my house has centred on notions of elitism and populism. If a reader doesn’t understand a poem, who is at fault the poem, the poet or the reader? The impli...