We won’t throw off our new and different shackles by romanticizing the oppressive societies in which these masterpieces were born.
When I was a teenager, I read novelists who struggled through wars and oppression and were censored and ridiculed. They got the PEN awards. I wished that I lived in a time when I could write novels like that.
I got my wish.
But now PEN is taking part in the censorship.
When I was a teenager, I read novelists who struggled through wars and oppression and were censored and ridiculed. They got the PEN awards. I wished that I lived in a time when I could write novels like that.
I got my wish.
But now PEN is taking part in the censorship.