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«One of the perplexities of fiction - and the quality that makes the novel the quintessentially liberal art form - is that we experience sympathy so readily for characters we wouldn't like in real life. Becky Sharp may be a soulless social climber, Tom Ripley may be a sociopath, the Jackal may want to assassinate the French president, Mickey Sabbath may be a disgustingly self-involved old goat, and Raskolnikov may want to get away with murder, but I find myself rooting for each of them.»

The end of the end of the world, Jonathan Franzen