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= Nobelprijs van Kooten: Veertig
Yourcenar: Hadrianus' Gedenkschriften
Conrad: Victory
Wilde: Het portret van Dorian Gray
Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
Byron: The Road to Oxiana
Naipaul: Among the Believers
Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia
Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher and Bach
1981
1982
15 Fanny (1980)
Erica Jong (New York 26/3/1942)
Inleiding: Bas 29/4/1982
For the Curse of the Male Sex is its constant Need of Homage - Homage to its Intellect
and Wit, Homage to its Gallantry and petty Prowess betwixt the Bed-Clothes; whilst
the Female Sex, said to be so vain, is vain only of mere superficial Beauty.
16 Veertig
(1982)
Kees van Kooten (Den Haag 10/8/1941)
Inleiding: Paul 29/4/1982
Hier begint het. Ik kan kiezen tussen: 'Zijn vrouw had hem' en 'Mijn vrouw heeft
mij'. Onderweg heb ik besloten dat het 'Mijn vrouw heeft mij' moet zijn.
17 Hadrianus' Gedenkschriften
(Mémoires d'Hadrien)
(1951)
Marguerite
Yourcenar (Brussel 8/6/1903
- Mount-Desert Island 17/12/1987)
Inleiding: Herman 25/6/1982
Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme
18 Victory
(1915)
Joseph
Conrad (Berdichev, Rusland
[nu: Oekraine] 3/12/1857 - Bishopsbourne, England 3/8/1924)
Inleiding: Gijsbert 30/9/1982
THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical
relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people
allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth,
but coal is a much less portable form of property.
19 Het portret
van Dorian Gray (1890)
Oscar Wilde (Dublin 16/10/1854 - Parijs 30/11/1900)
Inleiding: Paul 4/11/1982
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist
is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material
his impression of beautiful things.
20 Gedichten
(Les Fleurs du Mal) (1857)
Charles Baudelaire (Parijs 9/4/1821 - 31/8/1867)
Inleiding: Herman 23/12/1982
La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
21
The
Road to Oxiana
(1937)
Robert
Byron (Wiltshire,
Engeland 1905 - Noordzee, Cape Wrath. Schotland 1941)
Inleiding: Kees 23/12/1982
Here [the tourist] is still an aberration. If you can come from London to Syria
on business, you must be rich. If you can come so far without business, you must
be very rich. No one cares if you like the place, or hate it, or why. You are simply
a tourist, as a skunk is a skunk, a parasitic variation of the human species, which
exists to be tapped like a milch cow or a gum tree.
2001
22 Among the Believers (1981)
Vidiadhar
Naipaul (Chaguanas,
Trinidad 17/8/1932)
Inleiding: Kees 23/12/1982
Islam is the most uncompromising kind of imperialism because it seeks as an article
of the faith to erase the past.
23
In
Patagonia (1977)
Bruce
Chatwin (Sheffield
13/5/1940 - Nice 18/1/1989)
Inleiding: Gijsbert 23/12/1982
Patagonia! She is a hard mistress. She casts her spell. An enchantress! She folds
her arms and never lets go.
24
Gödel,
Escher, Bach (1979)
Douglas
Hofstadter (New
York 15/2/1945)
Inleiding: Paul 23/12/1982
Het idee voor dit boek speelde al zo'n twintig jaar door mijn hoofd - vanaf het
moment dat ik op mijn dertiende nadacht over hoe ik in het Engels en het Frans dacht
omhoog