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| Olaudiah Equiano:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano |
| Benjamin Franklin:
The Autobiography |
| [Frederick:]
"... Literature is the whole world; it is the expression of the gross,
the fatuous, and the foolish, and it is the pleasure of the gross, the
fatuous, and the foolish, as well as the expression and the pleasure of
the wise, the fine, the elect. Let the multitude have their truck,
their rubbish, their rot; it may not be the truck, the rubbish, the rot
that it would be to us, or may slowly and by natural selection become
to certain of them. But let there be no artificial selection, no
survival of the fittest my main force—the force of the spectator, who
thinks he knows better than the creator of the ugly and the beautiful,
the fair and foul, the evil and good." William Dean Howells: "The Critical Bookstore", Harper's Monthly Magazine 127.759 (1913). S. 442; Zitate William Dean Howells |
| "Am
liebsten las ich Reise und Entdeckungsberichte, flog auf meinen
Pantoffeln um die ganze Welt, durchquerte fieberverseuchte Kontinente,
erforschte Vulkane, geriet in Taifune und verlief mich in fernöstlichen
Städten mit scharf riechenden Pfeffermagazinen, dämmrigen Opiumhöhlen
und wüsten Hafenkaschemmen." Thomas Hürlimann:
Fräulein Stark, S. 21 |
| Der Vater des
Ich-Erzählers in Tanzende Araber sitzt im Gefängnis und ist dankbar für
eine sechsmonatige Haftverlängerung um die er selbst gebeten hatte. In
der Gefängnisbibliothek gibt es noch soviele Bücher, die es noch zu
lesen gilt. In einem Brief an seine Mutter bittet er um ein
englisch-hebräisches Wörterbuch. Er schreibt ihr, dass er die
Gefängnisbibliothek nur verlässt, wenn jemand mit ihm Schach spielt.Sayed Kashua:
Tanzende Araber, S. 50 |
| Rosemarie Marschner:
Das Bücherzimmer |
| Hier sollten zwölf Zeilen aus dem
Roman von Klaus Modick (S. 99) stehen. Der Eichborn Verlag erteilte
dazu nicht seine Erlaubnis (E-Mail 27 Jan 2005). Zurück zur Rezension von Klaus Modick:
Vierundzwanzig Türen |
| "The
library itself was doing a bustling business, mostly with women
bringing their young children in to look at books, but also the usual
collection of homeless and elderly that a library gathers. It's a
respectable destination. It's warm, you can be with other people. All
reasons why the Web cannot take the place of your branch library. Also
it had books. And an archivist who knew and loved his collection." Sara Paretsky:
Blacklist, S. 145-46 – weitere Zitate daraus |
| Pierre
Péju: Die kleine
Kartäuserin, handelt von einem Buchhändler, der
einem Mädchen im Koma Literatur vorträgt. |
| And most important there was a most
excellent english library with all sorts of strange biographies which
were to Gertrude Stein a source of endless pleasure. She once told me
that when she was young she had read so much, read from the
Elizabethans to the moderns, that she was terribly uneasy lest some day
she would be without anything to read. For years this fear haunted her
but in one way and another although she always reads and reads she
seems always to find more to read. Her eldest brother used to complain
that although he brought up from Florence every day as many books as he
could carry, there always were just as many to take back. Gertrude Stein:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
S. 55-56 |
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"The gateway to a forbidden and enchanting land", Richard Wright: Black
Boy, S. 48-49 |
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