Jennifer Egan, Carmen Laforet, Julien Green

Jennifer Egan (Chicago, 6 september 1962)De Amerikaanse schrijfster Jennifer Egan werd geboren in Chicago op 6 september 1962.Ze studeerde af aan San Francisco University High School voordat ze naar de Universiteit van Pennsylvania en St John's College ging. Egan is auteur van drie romans, The Keep, The Invisible Circus en Look at Me, dat finalist van voor de National Book Award, en een collectie van korte verhalen, Emerald City. Haar meest recente boek, The Keep (2006), ontving gunstige recensies van The New York Times Book Review. Ze heeft ook fictie gepubliceerd in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story en in Ploughshares.
Uit: Look at Me
“After the accident, I became less visible. I don't mean in the obvious sense that I went to fewer parties and retreated from general view. Or not just that. I mean that after the accident, I became more difficult to see.
In my memory, the accident has acquired a harsh, dazzling beauty: white sunlight, a slow loop through space like being on the Tilt-A-Whirl (always a favorite of mine), feeling my body move faster than, and counter to, the vehicle containing it. Then a bright, splintering crack as I burst through the windshield into the open air, bloody and frightened and uncomprehending.
The truth is that I don't remember anything. The accident happened at night during an August downpour on a deserted stretch of highway through corn and soybean fields, a few miles outside Rockford, Illinois, my hometown. I hit the brakes and my face collided with the windshield, knocking me out instantly. Thus I was spared the adventure of my car veering off the tollway into a cornfield, rolling several times, bursting into flame and ultimately exploding. The air bags didn't inflate; I could sue, of course, but since I wasn't wearing my seatbelt, it's probably a good thing they didn't inflate, or I might have been decapitated, adding injury to insult, you might say. The shatterproof windshield did indeed hold fast upon its impact with my head, so although I broke virtually every bone in my face, I have almost no visible scars.”
Voor onderstaande schrijvers zie ook mijn blog van 6 september 2006.
De Frans – Amerikaanse schrijver Julien Green werd geboren op 6 september 1900 in Parijs.
De Spaanse schrijfster Carmen Laforet werd geboren op 6 september 1921 in Barcelona.




















