Literature
- My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
- November 25 – Contents of Lissadell House, County Sligo, auctioned.
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“Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)
“A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.”
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