Frank Kermode quotes

Frank Kermode quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les thÃ©ories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.”
-- Frank Kermode

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“It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.”
-- Frank Kermode

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“It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.”
-- Frank Kermode

Source : Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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“It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.”
-- Frank Kermode

Source : Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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