Monday, 12 September 2011

Dahl knew that what children want in literature is the opposite of what they want in life."

A fabulous piece on the relativism of James and the Giant Peach... and was Roald Dahl an absolute sod?

Roald Dahl

1 comment:

  1. I'd read somewhere that Dahl was an absolute sod. Reading this article about all the greed and unpleasantness in his stories was a little disturbing, given how many of them I read and loved as a child (though for me it wasn't James and the Giant Peach, more the BFG, The Twits and Danny Champion of the World). I remember being terrified by The Witches and having to tell my parents I didn't want to read it any more!

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