"I could be writing away one day and think I’ve done very well; I’ve done more pages than I usually do. Then I get up the next morning and realize I don’t want to work on it anymore. When I have a terrible reluctance to go near it, when I would have to push myself to continue, I generally know that something is badly wrong. Often, in about three quarters of what I do, I reach a point somewhere, fairly early on, when I think I’m going to abandon this story. I get myself through a day or two of bad depression, grouching around. And I think of something else I can write. It’s sort of like a love affair: you’re getting out of all the disappointment and misery by going out with some new man you don’t really like at all, but you haven’t noticed that yet. Then, I will suddenly come up with something about the story that I abandoned; I will see how to do it. But that only seems to happen after I’ve said, No, this isn’t going to work, forget it."
Existens. Samhälle. Läsning. "Det som förgör Europa är fegheten, den moraliska fegheten, oförmågan att försvara sig, samt den uppenbara moraliska dypöl som kontinenten inte förmått ta sig ur alltsedan Auschwitz." Imre Kertész i Den sista tillflykten (översatt av Ervin Rosenberg)
torsdag 10 oktober 2013
Alice Munro
Här finns en ytterst läsvärd intervju med dagens Nobelpristagare i litteratur. Det är Paris Review som gjort den, och som alltid är det en djuplodande och omfattande intervju, där författaren bland annat säger:
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