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13/10/2004 Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume One
For those who've long touted Dylan as a great writer - "one of the few writers in English who can be mentioned in the same sentence as Shakespeare" is one of my less guarded assertions - Chronicles Volume One was awaited with some trepidation. Would it cast doubt over Dylan's prowess with the pen? Would it reveal feet of clay? Would it be a Tarantula Mk 2? Phew! What a relief. Chronicles is a beautifully crafted work. The prose resonates, like all the best literature: seemingly mundane passages reduced me to tears more than once. And there's a bonus: the book reveals far more than we ever knew about its author (though the reader will have to decide how much is fact, how much fiction). One minor whine, though: why did the publishers see fit to set the type of the entire text in bold face? OK, anything Bob has to say deserves stressing, but maybe 300 pages of bold text is a homage too far? Chronicles Volume One is a serious work of literature. It will be read and re-read, and then read again, more slowly, in these parts.
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