“ – the dangerous words, the padlocked words, the words that do not belong to the dictionary, for if they were written there, written out and not maintained by ellipses, they would utter too fast the suffocating misery of a solitude …” Jean Genet Introduction to “Soledad Brother – The Prison Letters of George Jackson”
Sunday, 4 March 2018
Does the personal life of a writer, or their values or political values affect your opinion of their work?
Labels:
Angkor Wat,
Anti Semitism,
Black Panthers,
Celine,
Domestic Violence,
Ezra Pound,
isis,
Jean Genet,
Jonathan Franzen,
Malraux,
Nazis,
PLO,
Spanish Civil War,
Wife Killing,
William Burroughs,
Writers' Lives
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