Harry Mathews (born February 14, 1930) is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays.
Read more about Harry Mathews: Life, The Novels, Other Works, Appearances in Fiction, Bibliography
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“Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)
“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints—the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk—we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)