Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but lan… - Harry Mathews
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but lan…
- Harry Mathews
I think situations are more important than plot and character. - Harry Mathews
I think situations are more important than plot and character.
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone els… - Harry Mathews
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone els…
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. - Harry Mathews
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. - Harry Mathews
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little … - Harry Mathews
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little …
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt. - Harry Mathews
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that un… - Harry Mathews
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that un…
It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found … - Harry Mathews
It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found …
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