Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. "

Related Quotes:

" The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. "

" In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. "

" My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. "

" A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. "

" Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. "

" As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. "

" And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. "

" The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language. "

" And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. "

" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "

" In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. "

" In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. "

" I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. "

" For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. "