John Cheever cytaty

John Cheever – amerykański pisarz.

Najbardziej znana jego powieść to Falconer , o nauczycielu uniwersyteckim przebywającym w więzieniu za zamordowanie brata. Akcja książek Cheevera jest umiejscowiona zwykle w Nowym Jorku, jego okolicach i w Massachusetts. Znany jest bardziej z opowiadań niż powieści. Otrzymał National Book Award za powieść The Wapshot Chronicle .

W Polsce wydano w latach 1969-91 cztery jego powieści i cztery zbiory opowiadań.

W swojej twórczości łączył realizm z poczuciem humoru. Był prześmiewcą amerykańskich przedmieść. Ukazywał kryzys amerykańskiej rodziny. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Maj 1912 – 18. Czerwiec 1982   •   Natępne imiona جان چیور
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John Cheever: Cytaty po angielsku

“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

“I was here on earth because I chose to be.”

John Cheever książka The Stories of John Cheever

Źródło: The Stories of John Cheever

“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1952 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence.”

On the assassination of John F. Kennedy
The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1955 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978).

“Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.”

John Cheever książka The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”

“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).