As one of the many people who rushed to comment on What Ever Happened to Modernism? on the strength of an inflammatory article in The Guardian, I owe Gabriel Josipovici an apology. He has since written a piteous – but accurate – letter to the Times Literary Supplement regretting that the Guardian journalist ‘took a few sentences from one chapter of a fifteen chapter book … robbed those words of their nuance and context, and, on the basis of three telephone conversations in which I tried in vain to explain that I was not interested in personalities but in certain large and general literary and cultural issues, passed the whole thing off as an interview.’

Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article