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For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.
- Justin Cartwright
#Human
#Moral
#Personal
#Seen
#Useful
Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I'm sure that is something to do with 'The Wind in the Willows.' I must have picked up a rather anthropomorphic view of them.
- Justin Cartwright
#Someone
#Something
#Up
#View
#Wind
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression.
- Justin Cartwright
#Memory
#Place
#Simple
#Three
#Valley
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.
- Justin Cartwright
#Black
#Education
#Know
#Problems
#Result
If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some, like Graf Delaire Estate, are brand new, with jewellery shops, indoor streams, and very high-end lodges for rent at prices not many South Africans can afford.
- Justin Cartwright
#Absurd
#Fault
#New
#Rent
#Wine
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm's Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.
- Justin Cartwright
#Age
#Award
#City
#History
#Journey
The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that the darkish miasma that was Robert Streeter's original allegory of truth and light striking the university is now bright with playful cherubs and lustrous clouds.
- Justin Cartwright
#Bright
#Building
#Clouds
#Light
#Truth
'Point Omega' starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of 'Psycho,' an installation that was created by the Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon. In it, the events and the minutiae of Hitchcock's film are painfully slowly reproduced; the watcher is obsessed with the detail revealed.
- Justin Cartwright
#Art
#Day
#Man
#Psycho
#Watching
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword.
- Justin Cartwright
#Cauliflower
#Her
#Indispensable
#Says
It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy in 1960.
- Justin Cartwright
#Church
#Good
#Jews
#Only
#Uncomfortable
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas.
- Justin Cartwright
#Boy
#Family
#Far
#My Own
#Own
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave.
- Justin Cartwright
#Bird
#Brown
#Good
#Life
#Real
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the American Civil War.
- Justin Cartwright
#American
#Crazy
#Enough
#Legend
#War
'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense of the universe in which they live - a universe strange, febrile, and utterly unique.
- Justin Cartwright
#Live
#Petty
#Try
#Unique
#Universe
A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.
- Justin Cartwright
#Between
#Blindness
#Connection
#Poetry
Personally, I have detested Gordon Brown since the moment in 2001 when he tried to make cheap capital out of the Laura Spence affair; as his troubles have piled up, I have felt no sympathy for him at all.
- Justin Cartwright
#Brown
#Cheap
#Moment
#Sympathy
#Tried
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