Maya Jasanoff > Quotes

“History is like therapy for the present, it makes it talk about its parents.”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

“All writing is an act of translation.”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

“Anyone could be savage. Everywhere could go dark”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

“Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!” What Marlow really wanted to figure out was the “fundamental why” beneath the “superficial how.” Hoping”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

“Hijito mío, duerme sin miedo. Canción de cuna, el mundo está oscuro, No tienes ni hogar ni país… Hijito mío, dite esto, estás sin tierra, sin amor, sin país, sin gente, mientras Polonia, tu Madre, yace en su tumba.”
― Maya Jasanoff, La guardia del alba: Joseph Conrad en el nacimiento de un mundo global