Howard Jacobson cytaty

Howard Jacobson – brytyjski pisarz, krytyk i felietonista. Laureat nagród literackich Bolinger Everyman Wodenhouse i Bookera. Autor komicznych powieści, w których portretuje żydowską społeczność w Wielkiej Brytanii. Sam siebie prześmiewczo opisuje jako żydowską Jane Austen. Zadebiutował w 1983 roku powieścią Coming from Behind. W 2010 roku nagrodzony Man Booker Prize za powieść Kwestia Finklera. Wikipedia

✵ 25. Sierpień 1942

Howard Jacobson: 8 Cytatów 0 Polubień

Howard Jacobson cytaty

„Ludzkie istoty rzadko są tak niebezpieczne jak wtedy, kiedy rozpływają się nad dobrocią własnych intencji.”

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson: Cytaty po angielsku

“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”

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Howard Jacobson książka The Finkler Question

Źródło: The Finkler Question

“He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.”

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Howard Jacobson

Źródło: Coming from Behind (1983), Ch. 3

“In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.”

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Howard Jacobson

Źródło: Coming from Behind (1983), Ch. 3

“Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.”

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Howard Jacobson

Redback (1986) p. 29.

“All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?”

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Howard Jacobson

Interviewed in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$FUVRY4DIEVBSTQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/arts/2003/04/27/bojac27.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/04/27/bomain.html

“In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.”

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Howard Jacobson

Źródło: Coming from Behind (1983), Ch. 1

“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

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Howard Jacobson

Interviewed for Nextbook, September 14, 2004. http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=51