Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 1892 |
Geburtsort | London, England |
Todesort | London |
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Beschreibung | Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/peoplefaqscom/peoplefaqs.com/public/wp-content/plugins/peoplefaqs-wp-helpers-plugin/classes/apis/DeeplAPI.php on line 39 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/peoplefaqscom/peoplefaqs.com/public/wp-content/plugins/peoplefaqs-wp-helpers-plugin/classes/apis/DeeplAPI.php on line 40 Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of the British fascist William Joyce and others; The |
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
