6/11/2023 0 Comments My name is lucy barton synopsis![]() ![]() The writer who bares others’ secrets must also bare her own, standing vulnerable before the people who purport to know her best. But there’s also a riskier exposure at stake. That, anyway, is what Milosz, and Roth, felt, and they make the selfishness at the heart of a writer’s life sound like the glorious liberation it is. To write is to declare a loyalty that runs deeper than blood, to make a pledge to the self and its expression to write well is to tell the truth about what you have seen, starting with where-and who-you come from. On the subject of his vocation, Philip Roth liked to quote Czeslaw Milosz: “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” It’s a great aphorism, pithy and cavalier, as emphatic as a gunshot. ![]()
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