Party of One by Anneli S Rufus

Author:Anneli S Rufus [Rufus, Anneli S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Introversion, Self, Self -- Social aspects, Individuality
Publisher: Marlowe & Co.
Published: 2003-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

P A R I" Y OF ON E

evening and when he feels what is happening there, all situations drop from him as if from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of pure life ... if there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things; they will not abandon you; and the nights are still there, and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in."

As he is writing this letter at Christmastime, Rilke draws a connection between solitude and faith, noting that "with work and with the repose that comes afterward, with a silence or with a small solitary joy, with everything that we do alone, without anyone to join or help us, we start Him whom we will not live to see, as our ancestors did not live to see us."

Writing novels takes the longest. Someone I knew spent thirteen years on hers. It earned fine reviews, then quickly went out of print. If novelists were in it for the money or praise, all but one in a million would be out of luck. Those thirteen years—the prime of that writer's life—are past. But are they wasted? Well, she was doing just as she pleased. Sandra Cisneros, mentioned earlier, spent nine years writing her multi-generational novel Caramelo.

Writers are advised to write about what is familiar to them. Aloneness is familiar If not physical isolation, then spiritual. Thus Thomas Mann's solo traveler, eyeing the boy whose heart he will not win, in Death in Venice. Thus Kobo Abe's

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