writer, university teacher, literary critic, journalist, romanist, author, literary theorist, literary historian, gay fiction writer
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us, but for those we want to pass them on to.
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.