Edmund White on Granta.com
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The Merry Widow
Edmund White
’She met my father in Texas and then they moved north, where I was born in Cincinnati.‘
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Give it up for Billy
Edmund White
‘Were there moral cataracts that one could remove?’
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Shrinks
Edmund White
‘Did the Rorschach lay bare my essence or my becoming? Was I becoming better or worse?’
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Telling Him
Edmund White
‘Austin invited his friend Joséphine, a children's book illustrator, to lunch‘.
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Skinned Alive
Edmund White
‘Once in a very great while he referred to me playfully as his 'husband', despite his revulsion against camp.’
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Prague: A Disappearing Poem
Milan Kundera
'Prague, this dramatic and suffering centre of Western destiny, is gradually fading away into the mists of Eastern Europe, to which it has never really belonged.' Milan Kundera on the loss of Prague's thousand-year-culture in Prague: A Disappearing Poem.
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A Kidnapped West or Culture Bows Out
Milan Kundera
'But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime; put another way, it sees in Central Europe only Eastern Europe.'
