Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
René Girard
Born: December 25, 1923
Died: November 4, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: René Noël Théophile Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.
Known for:
- Violence and the Sacred (1972)
- Deceit, Desire and the Novel (1961)
- The Girard reader (1996)
- The Scapegoat (1982)