Svetlana Alexievich. Photo: Chris Boland (www.chrisboland.com). Source: Flickr
Our Russian poet Joseph Brodsky said something very good when he was asked: ‘What is the difference between great literature and the merely average?’ Brodsky replied: ‘In the taste for the metaphysical.’ And how are we to understand ‘the metaphysical’? It is when someone sees… more deeply. Her worlds, her space, the enigmas of the world are involved in all this. She is enlightened in another way. That’s where the difference lies.
Svetlana Alexievich
Only love can save those who are infected with anger
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