Beers & Books CIII – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin

 

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Maurice O'Sullivan (19 February 1904 – 25 June 1950)

Beers & Books CII – Ernesto Sabato

Just as the office worker dreams
of murdering his hated boss
and so is saved from really murdering him,
so it is with the author;
with his great dreams
he helps his readers to survive,
to avoid their worst intentions.
And society, without realizing it
respects and even exalts him,
albeit with a kind of jealousy,
fear and even repulsion,
since few people want to discover the horrors
that lurk in the depths of their souls.
This is the highest mission of great literature,
and there is no other.

Ernesto Sabato (* 24 Juni 1911 - 30 April 2011)

Beers & Books CI – Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak *23 June 1975

Beers & Books C – Salvador de Madariaga

A Drop of Time

Salvador de Madariaga (23 July 1886 – 14 December 1978)

Beers & Books – Ian McEwan XCIX

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Ian McEwan * 21 June 1948

Beers & Books XCVIII – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)

Beers & Books XCVII– Zülfü Livaneli

At dusk a man came to a village and said
he was a prophet. But the farmers did not
believe him. "Prove it!" they demanded.
The man pointed to the fortress wall opposite
and asked, "If this wall speaks and confirms
that I am a prophet, will you believe me?"
"By God, then we believe you," they shouted.
The man turned to the wall, stretched out his hand
and commanded, "Speak, O wall!"
Then the wall began to speak:
"This man is not a prophet. He is deceiving you.
He is not a prophet."*

Zülfü Livaneli * 20 June 1946

Just for interest translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version). Does any native speaker find any mistake(s)?

Beers & Books XCVI – Varlam Shalamov

“I discovered
that the world should be divided
not into good and bad people
but into cowards and non-cowards.
Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable
of the vilest things, lethal things,
at the mildest threat.”

Varlam Shalamov (18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982)
 

Beers & Books XCV – Kamel Daoud

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud *17 June 1970

Beers & Books XCIV – Liao Yiwu

Where did you get the meat from?
Mo Erwa answered calmly:
We just boiled our three-year-old daughter.
The Corpse Walker:
Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up

Liao Yiwu * 16 June 1958

Beers & Books XCIII – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

"Reading is a lonely and innocent vice"

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939 – 18 October 2003)

Beers & Books XCII – Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet
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"Literature exists because the world isn't enough."

 

Fernando Pessoa (13. Juni 1888 – 30. November 1935)

Beers & Books XCI – Djuna Barnes

Only the impossible lasts forever.

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982)