The Guardian profile: Alan Bennett
He has been called everything from national treasure and prose laureate to curmudgeon laureate and Oracle of Little England. Yet the difference between Bennett the man and Bennett the image remains an enigmaHe is, according to the papers, a national treasure. Also a "national teddy bear" (Francis Wheen), "prose laureate" (David Thomson), "curmudgeon laureate" (Mark Jones), and Oracle of Little England (Matthew Norman…