“We’ll give the week-end to wisdom, to Weisheit, the rabbi….”
— Wallace Stevens in “Things of August” (see Storyville yesterday)
My choice for a rabbi would be George Steiner.
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INTERVIEWER You once referred to the “patience of apprehension” and “open-endedness of asking” which fiction can enact, and yet you have described your fictions as “allegories of argument, stagings of ideas.” Do you still consider them to be “stagings of ideas”? GEORGE STEINER Very much so. My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives. |
For one such staging, see today’s earlier posts Chess and Frame Tale.