That's got to be one of the most inaccurate Grauniad pieces of all time. The journalist gets the names of both central characters wrong (Adamsburg/Adamsberg, Dangland/Danglard) and also which boom introduces the Adamsberg: it's The Chalk Circle Man, even though this is the most recent to be translated, not the later novel Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands.
And this is just from a quick read of the article . . .
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Date: 2009-07-19 09:25 pm (UTC)That's got to be one of the most inaccurate Grauniad pieces of all time. The journalist gets the names of both central characters wrong (Adamsburg/Adamsberg, Dangland/Danglard) and also which boom introduces the Adamsberg: it's The Chalk Circle Man, even though this is the most recent to be translated, not the later novel Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands.
And this is just from a quick read of the article . . .