Роберто Боланьо: Цитаты на английском языке
“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Контексте: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
Roberto Bolaño книга The Skating Rink
Источник: The Skating Rink
Entre Paréntesis (2004) edited by Ignacio Echevarría, p. 223
“The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.”
Roberto Bolaño книга Last Evenings on Earth
Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Контексте: One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Контексте: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño книга The Insufferable Gaucho
Источник: The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño книга Last Evenings on Earth
Dentist
Источник: Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño книга Last Evenings on Earth
Dentist
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”
Roberto Bolaño книга The Savage Detectives
Источник: The Savage Detectives
“Reading is more important than writing.”
Источник: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
