Speaking about clichè

Toby Litt
The Italian Job
The Guardian, Saturday 24 January 2009 (Review inset)

I happen to have read the book. I happen to disagree on many points of this review, however that is not the point.

The article is introduced by the following lines (I quote): "Toby Litt has fun with a novelist who delights in cliché and coincidence".

Toby Litt underlines the use of clichès in the novel but his review's title is just the millionth time the famous movie has been used to refer to something conceived or implemented in Italy. I say, if you have to pick on something, at least try and refrain to do the same thing it the title of your piece(*).



(*) I know the authors, often, do not pick the titles themselves, still I think a little coherence is lacking there