Jonathan Raban Quotes:
Ocupation: Travel writer
Life: b. June 14, 1942
Birthday: June 14
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.
topic: Night, Thinking, Style, Wasteland, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Awake At Night
