I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. - Aleksandar Hemon
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
- Aleksandar Hemon
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded ef… - Aleksandar Hemon
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded ef…
Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anyth… - Aleksandar Hemon
Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anyth…
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. - Aleksandar Hemon
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me… - Aleksandar Hemon
I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me…
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. - Aleksandar Hemon
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle. - Aleksandar Hemon
I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is. - Aleksandar Hemon
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. - Aleksandar Hemon
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
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