I Love Books
I wonder if those of you who have always been avid readers during your whole lives have more or less read the same kinds of books, or swung from one genre and author to another.
I definitely belong to the latter. I used to love poetry, but, although I will never renege on my favorite poets, it looks like an ego trip to me now, as though the poet is talking to himself, not to a hypothetical reader.
I used to be fond of prophets of the absurd like Kafka or Beckett, but now I do not need at all to be remember of how meaningless the world is.
Nowadays I mostly enjoy authors like Chesterton, Gomez Dávila, Bernanos, Mauriac. Those who enjoy labels call them 'reactionary' or 'Catholic'. I call them my people, those I feel close to.
I don't read books to learn, discover, travel...any more. I want my readings to be like talks with good friends.
I have travelled wide, now I want to travel deep.
I definitely belong to the latter. I used to love poetry, but, although I will never renege on my favorite poets, it looks like an ego trip to me now, as though the poet is talking to himself, not to a hypothetical reader.
I used to be fond of prophets of the absurd like Kafka or Beckett, but now I do not need at all to be remember of how meaningless the world is.
Nowadays I mostly enjoy authors like Chesterton, Gomez Dávila, Bernanos, Mauriac. Those who enjoy labels call them 'reactionary' or 'Catholic'. I call them my people, those I feel close to.
I don't read books to learn, discover, travel...any more. I want my readings to be like talks with good friends.
I have travelled wide, now I want to travel deep.
