The language doesn't allow me to have a personality. The language knows I'm a complete idiot, and it just won't allow me . . . A good writer is the medium, not the message." Which brings us to the latest extraordinary project from this astoundingly prolific (a book a year) author [Peter Ackroyd]: a prose translation (his publishers insist on calling it a "retelling") of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem The Canterbury Tales.
from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: The retelling of Chaucer
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