“Why Were Their Poets Silent?”
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The Literary Saloon points to an article by John Pilger called The Silence of Writers.
For the great writers of the 20th century, art could not be separated from politics. Today, there is a disturbing silence on the dark matters that should command our attention.
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That the menace of great and violent power in our own times is apparently accepted by celebrated writers, and by many of those who guard the gates of literary criticism, is uncontroversial. Not for them the impossibility of writing and promoting literature bereft of politics. Not for them the responsibility to speak out - a responsibility felt by even the unpolitical Ernest Hemingway.
A must-read.
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Posted to General Rants • 2003.11.12 (Wed) • 15:56
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Posted by R. Brady 2003.11.13, 11:24
Jeremy—
Thanks for this one.
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