Mr. Chairman,
I have chosen to send Mr. Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner ,
not because the author is a woman,
not because this woman was a communist,
not because she was homosexual
but because I read somewhere that you identify with Holden Caulfield, a hero of JD Salinger, and I found it preposterous enough to think that our commonalities (I naive enough to believe zero) were more numerous there seemed.
Maybe deep down you think, like me, that education is the only priority, the study of ancient languages must not only be supported but encouraged, that the epistemic drive is our most precious as the values of solidarity and mutual aid are the only ones that really are worth to be transmitted, that social harmony comes from understanding, not punishment, being a land of welcome is proud to strongly defend that consumerism is a poison and the time to live a luxury that should be afforded to all.
may be dreaming.
Mr. Fortune's Maggot is a bildungsroman in reverse, is the story of a Catholic missionary sent to a Pacific island in order to evangelize the Indians and discovers along the way that savagery is not sitting where he thought. Mr. Fortune unlearn what he thought he knew, is the sublime experience of doubt and accesses a new form of transcendence. The book is wonderfully funny and deep, a little treatise of humanism that I am writing this because I think what we lack most cruelly today.
May you take the time to read. It's so good. And talking of the time, let us hope that whoever is lost, that we do not spend at work, which is a treasure in one of our greatest authors went looking for a missing key to all those who think that we are the world only to be effective. Without metaphysics, there is only anxiety. How sad.
Sincerely, Agnes
Desarthe *
colissimo No. 66 915 78 364 3 8V
* last novel appeared, Eat Me, Editions de l'Olivier, 2006.
www.agnesdesarthe.com
I have chosen to send Mr. Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner ,
not because the author is a woman,
not because this woman was a communist,
not because she was homosexual
but because I read somewhere that you identify with Holden Caulfield, a hero of JD Salinger, and I found it preposterous enough to think that our commonalities (I naive enough to believe zero) were more numerous there seemed.
Maybe deep down you think, like me, that education is the only priority, the study of ancient languages must not only be supported but encouraged, that the epistemic drive is our most precious as the values of solidarity and mutual aid are the only ones that really are worth to be transmitted, that social harmony comes from understanding, not punishment, being a land of welcome is proud to strongly defend that consumerism is a poison and the time to live a luxury that should be afforded to all.
may be dreaming.
Mr. Fortune's Maggot is a bildungsroman in reverse, is the story of a Catholic missionary sent to a Pacific island in order to evangelize the Indians and discovers along the way that savagery is not sitting where he thought. Mr. Fortune unlearn what he thought he knew, is the sublime experience of doubt and accesses a new form of transcendence. The book is wonderfully funny and deep, a little treatise of humanism that I am writing this because I think what we lack most cruelly today.
May you take the time to read. It's so good. And talking of the time, let us hope that whoever is lost, that we do not spend at work, which is a treasure in one of our greatest authors went looking for a missing key to all those who think that we are the world only to be effective. Without metaphysics, there is only anxiety. How sad.
Sincerely, Agnes
Desarthe *
colissimo No. 66 915 78 364 3 8V
* last novel appeared, Eat Me, Editions de l'Olivier, 2006.
www.agnesdesarthe.com