Friday, April 13, 2012

Thought for the day …

Today, writers can only record their political impotence… Contemporary literature is a literature of despair.
— J.M.G. Le Clézio, born on this date in 1940

4 comments:

  1. Eudora Welty also was born on this date:

    "As you have seen, I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."


    http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Daybook/Welty-at-Home/ba-p/7433

    “Eudora Welty shares with Samuel Beckett [also born on this date] the mastery of English prose among writers now living; she is one of the greatest of American writers in all our history…”

    http://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2012/04/education-carried-on-by-curiosity.html

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  2. I was privileged to hear and see Eudora Welty read when I was in college, and she greatly impressed me. Thanks for the reminder, Dave.

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  3. Wonderful quote, Dave!

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  4. I knew Welty was born on this date, but missed Beckett, oddly. And yes, that is a good quote.

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