Bowen, Elizabeth -- Pictures and Conversations, ch. 1 (1975)

Dave — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:52:15 +0000

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with “characters,” or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons “in history.” History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Irish author
Pictures and Conversations, ch. 1 (1975)
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Bowen, Elizabeth -- Pictures and Conversations, ch. 1 (1975)