Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews
Harry Mathewsis an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. He is also a translator from the French...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
dream able france
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
art first-love firsts
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
virginia said norfolk
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
football dream school
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
character thinking important
I think situations are more important than plot and character.
princeton harvard left
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
children years europe
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
writing speech transformation
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
long written long-time
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.