Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "nobel-prize"
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. And this is not just the great ontological question of why we are here at all, for which religions and philosophies have tried to answer conclusively for various peoples at various times, and science tentatively attempts dazzling bits of explantation we are perhaps going to die out in our millennia, like dinosaurs, without having developed the necessary comprehension to understand as a whole.
Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster.
With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life - observable reality - and the faculty of the imagination - the power of projection into the hidden - to make stories.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
~ Nadine Gordimer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. And this is not just the great ontological question of why we are here at all, for which religions and philosophies have tried to answer conclusively for various peoples at various times, and science tentatively attempts dazzling bits of explantation we are perhaps going to die out in our millennia, like dinosaurs, without having developed the necessary comprehension to understand as a whole.
Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster.
With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life - observable reality - and the faculty of the imagination - the power of projection into the hidden - to make stories.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
