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Name: Dirda Pride: Rogue, Founder and Leader of Dirda Familial Pride Mother: N/A Father: N/A Siblings: N/A Partner(s): Rhea, Unnamed Lioness Children: Herleva, Alina, Kerr, Makram, Nabil, Roswitha Generation: 1 Backstory: TBD
Housekeeping Tips from Michael Dirda – April 6, 2010 The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic offers a stirring introduction to Kansas City's 2010 Big Read selection, "Housekeeping" by Marilynne R...
Il libro e il lettore: due amanti
The rapport between a reader and his or her book is almost like that between lovers. The relationship grows, envelops a life, lays out new prospects and ways of seeing oneself and the future, is filled with moments of joy and sorrow; when it’s over, even its memory enriches as few experiences can. But just as we cannot physically afford to fall in love too many times, suffer its gantlet of emotions too often and still remain whole, so the novel-reader cannot read too many books of high purpose and harrowing dimension or do so too often. Burnout, a failure to respond with the intensity literature demands, is the result. As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction. La relazione tra un lettore e il suo libro è quasi come quella tra amanti. Il rapporto cresce, avvolge una vita, delinea nuove prospettive e modi di vedere se stessi e il futuro, è pieno di momenti di gioia e di dolore; quando è finito persino il suo ricordo arricchisce come possono fare poche altre esperienze. Ma proprio come non possiamo fisicamente permetterci di innamorarci troppe volte, soffrire troppo spesso la sfida delle emozioni e rimanere tuttavia tutt'uno, allo stesso modo il lettore di romanzi non è in grado di leggere troppi libri di alto livello e dimensioni stressanti o di farlo troppo spesso. Il risultato è la rovina della salute, la mancata risposta all'intensità che richiede la letteratura. Come nel caso di una storia d'amore, il cuore a pezzi ha bisogno di tempo per riaversi da un buon romanzo. [la traduzione è mia]
M. Dirda, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, New York, Henry Holt, 2005
Let the whole world crumble, so long as I can read another page. And then another after that. And then a hundred more.
Michael Dirda, “Talismans,” Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainment