Carl Muller talks to Lankan journalist and poet Afdhel Aziz about his critics, his upcoming books and dinner parties at the end of the world.
How do you cope with the critics?
Who is qualified critic that yo know, who can take your book and look at it as a critic and write either charitably or uncharitably about it? Who has come through a school of criticism? Who has got diploma is literary criticism, right? When an author writes a book, invariably, the author send a copy to the newspaper, who calls the sub-editor or a reporter and says: "Here, I,ve got this book. Review it." And bang comes review.
Are you saying that the best criticism comes from a layman?