Status Updates From A History of Books

I already have in my mind the image of a man reading a book written by an author attempting to discover things only known to writers of fiction, but I’m not sure if this image is the author of the book of fiction previously mentioned, or of the author of this note, or of myself.

2/2 …Rather, I believed that among all those slight occasional works…there would be one line or one paragraph in which I would say in my own style what no one but me could say.”

As far as I can tell, Murnane quotes here Sandor Marai, but it might have been other Hungarian writer.

1/2 “I know that I was never preparing for that certain ‘great book’ in which I would declare everything; the writer knows that he can never declare ‘everything’, and only the amateur or the expert lounging around the boundaries of literature – only such a one can write a great book.

2/2…that such image-realities must continue their image-existence even though another sort of writer might report long afterwards that they were no longer remembered.)”

1/2 ..”the hope of feeling again what he had felt often as a boy: that a book of fiction could not, by definition, come to an end; that what had been created could not be later annihilated; that the image-persons and the image-scenery brought into being whenever a certain sort of reader read what a certain sort of writer had written –