Worse, it is often accorded as the highest possible aesthetic accolade.
They will just find its existence ' natural ' and that may well be the highest of accolades for its author.
But these accolades did not accrue until many years until after their deaths.
But the accolades that accompanied the 1997 reissue differ markedly from the critical reception of the original 1952 release.
These few issued a rebuttal against all the accolades showered on the late leader and the ' national-state burial ' accorded him.
Sadly, while elements of this might apply to individual chapters, only a cave-dwelling petrologist would consider these to be appropriate accolades for the whole text.
They did not all hold the accolade in high regard, however.
Is it a vain hope that we will have ceased our fascination with controversy, and instead hand out the accolades to the champions of co-operation?
