Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

1922–2014 · lived 91 years

n. 1922-08-11, Montreal · m. 2014-02-18, 6.º arrondissement de Paris

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A writer’s life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story—or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall—is, “Is it dead or alive?”

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.

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