"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books."
~ Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books."
~ Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
13-Jan-2009, 09:14
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W.F. Hermans: The Darkroom of Damocles
I would like to compile, for my own personal reassurance, a list of moments when admired authors have shown that they too struggle with difficult books. There was Martin Amis’s review of Don Quixote which he said “suffers from one serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.” Or Seamus Deane, Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic, whose [...]
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