The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.


The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 (ed. Knopf, 2009) - ISBN: 9780307538963


The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.