tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7281335190759592873..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `No Objection to His Own Company'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-85693204198072797362014-07-29T09:27:30.778-05:002014-07-29T09:27:30.778-05:00What a strange parenthetical remark. Chambers and ...What a strange parenthetical remark. Chambers and Koestler may have been accomplished writers – meaning they knew how to write well – but their work was far more ideological than Neruda’s, Sartre’s and Brecht’s. Chambers and Koestler primarily are anti-communist writers, while the other three are a poet, a novelist/philosopher and a playwright, whose writings deal with the entire spectrum of human experience, not just the political. I don’t have the nous to say anything about Neruda, but (in the translations I’ve read) Sartre in his novels and Brecht in his best plays (“Mother Courage” and “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” come to mind), while not approaching the kind of exquisite writing which you, I gather, cherish as much as I, certainly match anything of Koestler’s. (I haven’t read “Witness”.)Denkof Zwemmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01118582264573609926noreply@blogger.com