Palace of Books by Roger Grenier Alice Kaplan & Alice Kaplan

Author:Roger Grenier, Alice Kaplan & Alice Kaplan [Grenier, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO000000 Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN: 9780226232591
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Reading

Reading, as much if not even more than writing, is an act that belongs to private life. Alone with a book. Perhaps we’ll recognize ourselves in the pages someone else has written. Our chaotic, poorly understood existence is suddenly comprehensible. Fiction can teach us more about ourselves than reality.

We forge a completely personal rapport with beloved writers of the past. We’ll never see them but we’ll cherish them, even if years, indeed centuries, separate us from them. They are closer to us than members of our family, or than people we think we love. They can become our sole consolation. Elio Vittorini says it best: “In literature’s greatest moments, there has always been a Chekhov, someone who abandons the novel and all other explicit representations or interpretations of his or her era, to touch the very depths of those isolated souls, those who are defeated by their times, isolated by the disarray and the storm.”

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