Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubynis an English author and journalist. He is the author of eight novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was nominated for the Booker prize...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 January 1960
people way detachment
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
impossible novel feels
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
children giving-up fighting
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.
men argument adverbs
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
hurt pain bigs
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
giving-up mean two
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.