Fuck Yeah 1st Sentences

April 2012

13 posts

“One fine day in early summer, a young man lay thinking in Central Park.” —Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman

Apr 29, 2012

#Percy #American Literature #Southern Literature #20th Century #Christianity

“The younger sister is bored in the shop and rings the bell.” —Lydia Davis, Two Sisters (II)

Apr 29, 2012

#American Literature #Davis #Lady Writers #Short Stories #Contemporary Literature

“It rained lightly on the morning of Wednesday, July 4, 1917, and the Festival Committee met to decide whether to postpone the Festival until the following Saturday.” —John O’Hara, A Rage to Live

Apr 29, 2012

#O'Hara #20th Century #American Literature #Pulp Literature

“This hour that can arrive sometimes outside of all hours, a hole in the net of time.” —Julio Cortazar, From the Observatory

Apr 29, 2012

#Latin American lit #Creative nonfiction #Cortazar #Latin American Literature #Argentine Literature #20th Century #Creative Non-Fiction #Translation

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974” —Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex 

Apr 28, 20121 note

#Eugenidies #Contemporary Literature #American Literarture #Detroit #21st Century

“One afternoon, early in October, I was invited to black coffee at Fritz Wendel’s flat.” —Christopher Isherwood, “Sally Bowels”, The Berlin Stories. 

Apr 28, 2012

#Isherwood #American Literature #Americans in Europe #Berlin #Short Stories #20th Century #Golden Era #Weimar Germany

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Apr 28, 2012

#American Literature #Lady Writers #Plath #Feminism #Feminine Mystique

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.” —George Eliot, Middlemarch

Apr 28, 2012

#19th Century #English Literature #Lady Writers #Elliot #Pen Names #Victorian Literature #European Literature

Apr 8, 2012

#Conrad #Book Covers

“Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there’s a peephole in the door, and my keeper’s eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.” —Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum

Apr 8, 2012

#Grass #WWII #Post-War Literature #German Literature #Danzig #European Literature #20th Century

“He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.” —Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Apr 8, 2012

#19th Century #Joseph Conrad #European Literature #Polish Literature #English Literarture #Turn of the Century #Maritime Literature #Adventure Novel #Conrad

“It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.” —William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

Apr 8, 2012

#Southern Literature #Faulkner #American Literature #20th Century #Modernism #American Gothic

“I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.” —Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

Apr 8, 2012

#American Literature #Canadian Literature #Chicago #20th Century #Coming of Age