Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Reading novels

Salsburg, Austria - 2007


It is by reading novels, stories, and myths that we come to understand the ideas that govern the world in which we live; it is fiction that gives us access to the truths kept veiled by our families, our schools, and our society; it is the art of the novel that allows us to ask who we really are.

Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
_Other Colors: Essays and a Story_ [2007],
"In Kars and Frankfurt"