Derek Matravers answers questions about his book, Fiction and Narrative, put to him by Michel-Antoine Xhignesse for ASAGE, an online journal in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. The opener:

“For those of our readers who may not have had a chance to read your book yet, could you explain its main thrust?”

Go here to read his answer, and to find out why he is so appalled by Wind in the Willows (“Give one iota of thought to it, and it just falls to bits. It starts looking utterly horrific: animals talking to each other one moment, and then sticking each other between slices of bread and eating one another the next”).