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But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that made life semilife and men semimen. He wished to pu...more

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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

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A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man...more

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The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

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No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having heard God's laughter, the agélastes are convinced th...more

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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seek...more

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Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of kno...more

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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? S...more

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She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with wall...more

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You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running...more

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When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the enti...more

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For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable defeat called life is to try to understand ...more

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Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic, and committed; among friends, unconstrained...more

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A person's destiny often ends before his death.

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Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such t...more