Saturday Night Music

 

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828)

Alfred Brendel * 5 January 1931

 

Beers & Books CVI – George Sand

"Simplicity is the essence
of the great, the true, the beautiful in art."

George Sand (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876)

Beers & Books CV – Assija Djebar

Les Nuits de Strasbourg, 1997
*
"My father was a nobleman
when he spoke his mother tongue,
and a worker from the lowest class
when he went over into French."
**
“Writing in a foreign language
has brought me to the cries of the women
silently rebelling in my youth,
to my own true origins.”

Assija Djebar (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015)

Beers & Books CIV – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince
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Antoine Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944)

Saturday Night Music – Khatia Buniatishvili

Khatia Buniatishvili * 21 June 1987

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)