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Edmund Valentine White III, né le 13 janvier 1940 à Cincinnati , est un romancier, biographe et critique littéraire américain. Wikipedia  

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“Real men don’t moisturise.”

Our Young Man

“It seemed strange to me that someone who painted big, scary abstractions should have been so commonsensical in her literary tastes, though later I would discover that twelve-tone composers read Keats just as experimental poets listened to Glenn Miller — few people are avant-garde outside their own domain.I suppose that as Midwesterners, the children of chemical engineers and homemakers, we experienced the arts as so foreign, even so preposterously unreasonable, that once we’d decided to embrace them we did so with lots of conviction and little discrimination. Surely it was no accident that T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, the two great poetic synthesists of our day, the very men who had ransacked all of world culture and could refer in the same poem to the Buddha and to Sophocles or to Confucius and to Jefferson — it was no accident that they were both from the heartland. Public-library intellectuals, magpies of knowledge, like most autodidacts we were incapable of evaluating our sources. As a teen-ager, I tried to write verse like Milton’s; later, I wanted to write novels like Nabokov’s. In a novel I wrote in college, I imitated Evelyn Waugh. If someone had said to me, "But do you, the graceless son of a Cincinnati broker of chemical equipment, do you seriously imagine that you can just write a Renaissance Christian epic or something in the style of a Cambridge-educated Russian aristocrat or of the spokesman of the Bright Young Things of London circa 1925?"”

if someone had spoken like this to me, I wouldn’t even have understood his point.
My Women.The New Yorker https://archive.is/20121204150452/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050613fa_fact 6 June 2005
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“All his leisure clothes were absurd — jokes, really — as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.”

Edmund White livre A Boy's Own Story

Source: A Boy's Own Story (1982), Chapter One (p. 3).

“I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.”

Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_ewhite.html (1994)
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