Tuesday 28 August 2007

a pertinent idea

The idea expressed below demonstrates the spirit of life which, like Henry James, does routinely include tragedy and doesn't offer happy endings "at any cost." Interestingly, this passage was clipped from a blog entitled The Art of Fiction by Mauricio Salvador:

"Como diría el narrador de Muerte en la tarde, de Hemingway: 'Señora, todas las historias, si continúan lo suficiente, terminan en la muerte, y no es un auténtico narrador de historias quien se lo oculta.' Y Philip Roth, sin duda, es un auténtico narrador de historias. "

A crude translation: "Like the narrator of Hemingway's Death in the afternoon said: 'Madam, all stories, if they go on long enough, end in death, and he who tries to hide that is no true storyteller.' And Philip Roth, without doubt, is a true storyteller."

I've left only to add: Y Henry James, sin duda, es un auténtico narrador de historias.

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