Posted by Adam Quinan on April 26, 2005 at 03:11:31 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.
In Reply to: Buchan a bigot ??? posted by Mike Field on April 26, 2005 at 01:30:51:
Its really a question whether you believe that the attitudes that an author puts into his characters reflect his own beliefs or not. Certainly some of Buchan's characters, even the heros, reflect a certain attitude towards blacks, Jews, women and foreigners generally, that would be considered politically incorrect today.
Back when the books were written they would have been quite commonly held viws by perfectly respectable people and it is not impossible that Buchan might have shared them to a greater or lesser extent. However, does that make him a bigot, racist or anti-semitic?