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Tim Parks est né à Manchester en 1954, a grandi à Londres et étudié à Cambridge et Harvard. En 1981, il s'est établi en Italie à Vérone où il vit depuis lors.

Il a traduit de l'italien Alberto Moravia, Tabucchi, Italo Calvino et Roberto Calasso. Tim Parks donne des conférences sur la traduction littéraire à Milan. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. décembre 1954  •  Autres noms ティム・パークス
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Tim Parks: Citations en anglais

“All Dickens is packed with orphans or people in uncertain relation to family groups, or clubs. It’s impossible to read anything he wrote without feeling that the question of belonging was a major issue for him. He had to write about these matters. If we read Lovecraft’s science-fiction horror stories, weird and unpleasant as they may be, they are all obsessively about fear of otherness—women’s, people of other races’, aliens’. All the over-heated horror of the books arises from this gut fear. He can’t leave it alone. Whether or not we like the books and quite regardless of any verisimilitude, it’s clear that the author is writing directly from his personal concerns. The stuff wasn’t just constructed for a literary prize. A certain form of repetition, particularly the endless reformulation, in dozens of different guises, of the same core conflict is probably the hallmark of authenticity.”

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"In Search of Authenticity," The New York Review of Books (4 February 2015).

“Virginia Woolf thought one of the pleasures of reading contemporary novels was that they forced you to exercise your judgment. There was no received opinion about a book. You had to decide for yourself whether it was good.”

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"Why Read New Books?" The New York Review of Books (11 November 2014).

““Into thirty centuries born,” Edwin Muir began his most celebrated poem, “At home in them all but the very last.” Much is said about escapism in narrative and fiction. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.”

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"Why Read New Books?" The New York Review of Books (11 November 2014).

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