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- Title
A QUIET, CHEAP PLACE TO WRITE OR, THE AVATARS OF SILENCE.
- Authors
POPESCU, DAN HORAŢIU
- Abstract
This paper aims at identifying major issues related to the process of writing, as reflected in Patrick Leigh Fermor's book, A Time to Keep Silence, and also in his correspondence with various people. The famous travel author associated with Romania and its pre-WWII Golden Age, as remembered and recreated in Between the Woods and the Water, produced, at the beginning of his literary career, in the early 1950s, a book showing the painstaking of growing into a writer. At the same time, the atmosphere and the spirit of certain places an author would always be willing to fantasize about was wonderfully captured in his book on silence. A heretic (read Protestant) from across the Channel, he spent some time in a French Catholic monastery in the years right after WWII, as a result of his search for the perfect place to write. His major experience while at St. Wandrille Abbey, and in a couple of similar locations, definitely contrasted the type of life he previously used to share with some of his socialite friends. Inside the monastic shelters, Fermor eventually engaged in their silence code, and that provided him with a peculiar understanding of an alternative way of life, and a rather compelled return to the roots of his own identity.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; AVATARS (Virtual reality); ABBEYS; TIMEKEEPING; BOOK industry exhibitions; WRITING processes; WOOD; TRAVELERS' writings
- Publication
Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies, 2019, p31
- ISSN
2360-3372
- Publication type
Article