The darkness
of Alice Munro
Alice Munro
NEW SELECTED STORIES
448pp. Chatto and Windus. £18.99.
978 0 7011 7988 5
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Some years ago I was in the British Museum looking at the Parthenon sculptures when a young man came up to me and said with a worried air, ‘I know it’s an awful thing to confess, but this Greek stuff doesn’t move me one bit.’ I said that was very interesting: could he define at all the reasons for his lack of response? He reflected for a minute or two. Then he said, ‘Well, it’s all so terribly rational, if you know what I mean.’ I thought I did.”