Anne Douglas Sedgwick: An Interview by Ester Forbes, Together With Some Critical Comments and a Bibliography
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Excerpt from Anne Douglas SedgwickTell me about the books you read Henry James, for instance? I have often heard him referred to as an 'in?uence' on your style. I read Henry James with delight, and Meredith with delight mingled with exasperation during all my early years, but they have never been my favorite novelists. The Russians have always been that, since I first read 'la Guerre et la Paix' (i much prefer them all in French) at the age of eighteen. Q. I read once in a Chicago paper that this is the book of all others you would rather have written. 'alice in Wonderland' came second. A. Indeed I have not said or did not mean to say 'la Guerre et la Paix' is the novel I would most have wished to write! I could never think of myself in that grandiose category. It is my favorite novel, a very different thing, and I can as little think of the world without a Bible as without 'alice in Wonder land' and 'through the Looking Glass,' enchanting, adorable, marvelous books. Surely they furnish life as no others do except the Bible.