“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.” MenWritingIndividualReaderSolitudeMethodOneselfBreadComical Book:The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays Source: The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays
“To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.” WayWritingOrderMy OwnSilenceSpeechAuthorityOneselfCeaseEchoesIncessantDecisiveness Book:The Space of Literature Source: The Space of Literature
“The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.” WritingDoeRealStoriesRememberAliveDyingOneselfDaily LifeConfessionJournalMemorial Book:The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays Source: The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays
