Wednesday 19 April, 2006

Da Really?

'Once you start writing about The Da Vinci Code, you find yourself grasping pretty quickly at metaphors that involve mist and fog- and that's even if you do fancy that you can write better than Brown. With sales of 40 million and rising (figures that must be up there with that other wonderful conflation of history and fiction, the bible), my bet is the Brown doesn't care that much what we think of his prose. As for the content of his book: is it fiction? is it non-fiction? Well, who knows? Questions around the content of The Da Vinci Code speak of even wider confusions: What is fiction? What is non-fiction? Not many people seem sure on that wider point either.'

If you want to read my article in its entireity, you'll find it at New Matilda

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