Clive James: “His apparently detached political position was not regarded as beyond cavil by other Argentine writers, who admired his art but questioned his relaxation into international eminence at a moment when his homeland was in the grip of terror.”
Jorge Luis Borges: Can a great writer be blind to the world around him
February 7th, 2007 · Comments Off
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Anna Akhmatova. Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale.
February 6th, 2007 · Comments Off
Clive James: “Akhmatova was the embodiment of the Russian liberal heritage that the authoritarians felt bound to go on threatening long after it had surrendered. As such, she was an inspiring symbol, but when a poet becomes better known than her poems, it usually means that she is being sacrificed, for extraneous reasons, on the altar of her own glory.”
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