Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... writing , who get along without this crutch . ( A crutch posing as a mission . ) Unfortunately , writing - whether attended by the ability to write or not - seems to have joined those proliferating ' rights ' which no one dare doubt ...
... writing , who get along without this crutch . ( A crutch posing as a mission . ) Unfortunately , writing - whether attended by the ability to write or not - seems to have joined those proliferating ' rights ' which no one dare doubt ...
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... writing novels is not unlike God's grace : it is arbitrary , incomprehensible and sublimely unjust . It is not a ... writer ( which is enough for me ) . Going by what little I know of him personally , Simon Leys ( i.e. Pierre Ryckmans ) ...
... writing novels is not unlike God's grace : it is arbitrary , incomprehensible and sublimely unjust . It is not a ... writer ( which is enough for me ) . Going by what little I know of him personally , Simon Leys ( i.e. Pierre Ryckmans ) ...
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... writing department in the University of East Anglia , thus promoting the birth of numerous authors rather than plotting the Death of the Author . I begin to grow confused already , so allow me to quote the fictional young hero of ...
... writing department in the University of East Anglia , thus promoting the birth of numerous authors rather than plotting the Death of the Author . I begin to grow confused already , so allow me to quote the fictional young hero of ...
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