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De Franse schrijver, filosoof en componist Jean Jacques Rousseau werd geboren in Genève op 28 juni 1712. Zie ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2006 en ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2008.
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Uit: Émile ou De l'éducation
« Émile n'aura ni bourrelets, ni paniers roulants, ni chariots, ni lisières ; ou du moins, dès qu'il commencera de savoir mettre un pied devant l'autre, on ne le soutiendra que sur les lieux pavés, et l'on ne fera qu'y passer en hâte. Au lieu de le laisser croupir dans l'air usé d'une chambre, qu'on le mène journellement au milieu d'un pré. Là, qu'il coure, qu'il s'ébatte, qu'il tombe cent fois le jour, tant mieux : il en apprendra plus tôt à se relever. Le bien-être de la liberté rachète beaucoup de blessures. Mon élève aura souvent des contusions ; en revanche, il sera toujours gai. Si les vôtres en ont moins, ils sont toujours contrariés, toujours enchaînés, toujours tristes. Je doute que le profit soit de leur côté.
Un autre progrès rend aux enfants la plainte moins nécessaire : c'est celui de leurs forces. Pouvant plus par eux-mêmes, ils ont un besoin moins fréquent de recourir à autrui. Avec leur force se développe la connaissance qui les met en état de la diriger. C'est à ce second degré que commence proprement la vie de l'individu ; c'est alors qu'il prend la conscience de lui-même. La mémoire étend le sentiment de l'identité sur tous les moments de son existence ; il devient véritablement un, le même, et par conséquent déjà capable de bonheur ou de misère. Il importe donc de commencer à le considérer ici comme un être moral. »
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 juni 1712 - 2 juli 1778)
Buste van Jean-Antoine Houdon
De Italiaanse schrijver Luigi Pirandello werd op 28 juni 1867 geboren in de villa 'Caos' (chaos) in de buurt van Agrigento. Zie ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2008.
Uit: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Vertaald door Edward Storer)
The Manager [throwing a letter down on the table]. I can't see [To PROPERTY MAN.] Let's have a little light, please!
Property Man. Yes sir, yes, at once. [A light comes down on to the stage.]
The Manager [clapping his hands]. Come along! Come along! Second act of "Mixing It Up." [Sits down.] [The ACTORS and ACTRESSES go from the front of the stage to the wings, all except the three who are to begin the rehearsal.]
The Prompter [reading the "book"]. "Leo Gala's house. A curious room serving as dining-room and study."
The Manager [to PROPERTY MAN]. Fix up the old red room.
Property Man [noting it down]. Red set. All right!
The Prompter [continuing to read from the "book"]. "Table already laid and writing desk with books and papers. Book-shelves. Exit rear to Leo's bedroom. Exit left to kitchen. Principal exit to right."
The Manager [energetically]. Well, you understand: The principal exit over there; here, the kitchen. [Turning to actor who is to play the part of SOCRATES.] You make your entrances and exits here. [To PROPERTY MAN.] The baize doors at the rear, and curtains.
Property Man [noting it down]. Right!
Prompter [reading as before]. "When the curtain rises, Leo Gala, dressed in cook's cap and apron is busy beating an egg in a cup. Philip, also dresesd as a cook, is beating another egg. Guido Venanzi is seated and listening."
Leading Man [To MANAGER]. Excuse me, but must I absolutely wear a cook's cap?
The Manager [annoyed]. I imagine so. It says so there anyway. [Pointing to the "book."]
Leading Man. But it's ridiculous!
The Manager [jumping up in a rage]. Ridiculous? Ridiculous? Is it my fault if France won't send us any snore good comedies, and we are reduced to putting on Pirandello's works, where nobody understands anything, and where the author plays the fool with us all? [The ACTORS grin. The MANAGER goes to LEADING MAN and shouts.] Yes sir, you put on the cook's cap and beat eggs. Do you suppose that with all this egg-beating business you are on an ordinary stage? Get that out of your head. You represent the shell of the eggs you are beating! [Laughter and comments among the ACTORS.] Silence! and listen to my explanations, please! [To LEADING MAN.] "The empty form of reason without the fullness of instinct, which is blind." -- You stand for reason, your wife is instinct. It's a mixing up of the parts, according to which you who act your own part become the puppet of yourself. Do you understand?
Luigi Pirandello (28 juni 1867 - 10 december 1936)
De Duitse dichter en schrijver Otto Julius Bierbaum werd geboren op 28 juni 1865 in Grünberg. Zie ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2007.
Traum durch die Dämmerung
Weite Wiesen im Dämmergrau;
Die Sonne verglomm, die Sterne ziehn;
nun geh ich zu der schönsten Frau,
weit über Wiesen im Dämergrau,
Tief in den Busch von Jasmin,
Durch Dämmergrau in der Liebe Land;
Ich gehe nicht schnell, ich eile nicht;
Mich zieht ein weiches, samtenes Band
durch Dämmergrauin der Liebe Land,
In ein blaues, mildes Licht.
Komm her und laß dich küssen
Die Luft ist wie voll Geigen,
Von allen Blütenzweigen
Das weiße Wunder schneit;
Der Frühling tobt im Blute,
Zu allem Uebermute
Ist jetzt die allerbeste Zeit.
Komm her und laß dich küssen!
Du wirst es dulden müssen,
Daß dich mein Arm umschlingt.
Es geht durch alles Leben
Ein Pochen und ein Beben:
Das rote Blut, es singt, es singt.
Otto Julius Bierbaum (28 juni 1865 1 februari 1910)
De Amerikaanse schrijver, en biograaf Aaron Edward Hotchner werd geboren op 28 juni 1920 in St. Louis. . Zie ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2007.
Uit: The Good Life According to Hemingway
In the beginning I was not making any money at it, and I just wrote as well as I couldthe editors didn't like it, but someday they would. I really didn't care about criticism. The best thing about your early days is that you are not noticed. You don't have to deal with criticism, and you really enjoy your workdays. You think it's easy to write and you feel wonderful, but you're not thinking about the reader, who is not having much enjoyment. But when you start to mature and begin to write for the reader, writing becomes more difficult. In fact, when you look back on anything you've written, what you recall is what a tough go it was. Every day the rejected manuscripts would come back through the slot in the door of that bare room where I lived over the Montmartre sawmill. They'd fall through the slot onto the wood floor, and clipped to them was that most savage of all reprimandsthe printed rejection slip. The rejection slip is very hard to take on an empty stomach, and there were times when I'd sit at that old wooden table and read one of those cold slips that had been attached to a story I had loved and worked on very hard and believed in, and I couldn't help crying. When the hurt is bad enough, I cry.
When a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any; then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and, finally,if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything.
A. E. Hotchner (St. Louis, 28 juni 1920)
De Engelse schrijver Eric Ambler werd geboren op 28 juni 1909 in Londe. Hij werkt eeerst als schrijver van reclameteksten. In 1936 had hij voor het eerst succes met zijn roman The Dark Frontier. Dit boek en andere romans uit deze perode gelden tegenwoordig als klassieke werken in het thriller genre.
Uit: Epitaph for a Spy
I arrived in St. Gatien from Nice on Tuesday, the 14th of August. I was arrested at 11.45 a.m. on Thursday, the 16th, by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat. For several kilometers on the way from Toulon to La Ciotat the railway runs very near to the coast. As the train rushes between the innumerable short tunnels through which this section of the line has been built, you catch quick glimpses of the sea below, dazzlingly blue, of red rocks, of white houses among pine woods. It is as if you were watching a magic-lantern show with highly colored slides and an impatient operator. The eye has no time to absorb details. Even if you know of St. Gatien and are looking for it, you can see nothing of it but the bright red roof and the pale yellow stucco walls of the Hotel de la Reserve. The hotel stands on the highest point of the headland and the terrace runs along the south side of the building. Beyond the terrace there is a sheer drop of about fifteen meters. The branches of pines growing below brush the pillars of the balustrade. But farther out towards the point the level rises again. There are gashes of red rock in the dry green scrub. A few windswept tamarisks wave their tortured branches in silhouette against the intense ultramarine blue of the sea. Occasionally a white cloud of spray starts up from the rocks below.
Eric Ambler (28 juni 1909 22 oktober 1998)
Zie voor onderstaande schrijvers ook mijn blog van 28 juni 2007.
De Zwitserse dichter en schrijver Jürg Federspiel werd geboren op 28 juni 1931 in Kemptthal.
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