Remembering Nobel laureate Saint-John Perse on his birthday
📷 Sergio Larrain, 1959
"The reader has to allow the images to fall into his memory successively without questioning the reasonableness of each at the moment; so that, at the end, a total effect is produced."
- TS Eliot
📷 Sergio Larrain, 1959
"The reader has to allow the images to fall into his memory successively without questioning the reasonableness of each at the moment; so that, at the end, a total effect is produced."
- TS Eliot
Sergio Larrain's photograph of Saint-John Perse with his wife Dorothy Milburn Russell, in the Hotel Cambon, Washington DC, 1959
Saint-John Perse is awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres by André Malraux, 1959.
In 1960 Saint-John Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. From his wonderful Banquet Speech:
"Refusing to divorce art from life, love from perception, poetry is action, it is passion, it is power, & always the innovation which extend borders."
nobelprize.org/prizes/literat…
"Refusing to divorce art from life, love from perception, poetry is action, it is passion, it is power, & always the innovation which extend borders."
nobelprize.org/prizes/literat…
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