The review shared humanity: A jane austen bicentenary

摘要

The most important thing about 'Classics' is that they are shared. They are experiences we all have in common. Or at Least things that we can refer to in common. As such they are links between us which form the very substance of our culture. And they do this, it seems to me, whether or not they are particularly great art. But when they are great art, and we recognise in the shared experience they afford truths about our own humanity, exquisitely expressed, that is something special indeed.