Somerset Mauqham
İnsanlar sizden eleştiri isterler ama tek duymak istedikleri övgüdür.
Köşe Yazılarından/Cihan Aktaş
"...Bütün o kalın ciltler nasıl, ne zaman okunur bunca ekran kuşatması altında? Güçlü bir merak, sağlam bir tutku ve elbet, “Evrenin ikizi bir kitap” demiş Mallarme. Klasik, evinizin rafındaki yerini sağlama almış kitaptır. Klasikleri okumasaydım, mesela Halide Edip’i, Pearl Buck’u, Somerset Maughham’ı tanımasaydım, roman yazmak ister miydim acaba…"
Yaşamın ilginç yanlarından birisi de; en iyinin dışında bir şey kabul etmeyenlere, genellikle en iyiyi vermesidir.
W.Somerst Maugham
The Appointment in Samarra
(as retold by W Somerset Maugham [1933])
"The speaker is Death
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
Modern Klasikler
91 ANNE FRANK'IN HATIRA DEFTERİ/ANNE FRANK
95 İNSANIN ESARETİ/W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Modern Klasikler
MODERN KLASİKLER DİZİSİ
Hayatımda yapmak istediklerimden birisi seriyi tamamlamak ama 86. kitaba ulaştı.Benim gibi tamamlamak isteyenler için alın size liste.Liste alıntı değildir kendi emeğimdir. :)
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1 SİNEKLERİN TANRISI WİLLİAM GOLDİNG
2 BİLİNMEYEN ADANIN ÖYKÜSÜ JOSE SARAMAGO
3 OTAMATİK PORTAKAL ANTHONY