Tolkien o Charlesie Williamsie i innych sprawach
Kolejny nieznany list Profesora

22.07.07, 11:03, dodany przez Galadhorn

Dzięki czujności Hyalmy poznaliśmy kolejny list od J.R.R. Tolkiena. Tym razem rękopis pochodzi z roku 1945. List do przyjaciela „Morgana” traktuje o śmierci Charlesa Williamsa (mniej w Polsce znanego członka grupy literackiej Inklingów) oraz zawiera recenzję opowiadania „Morgana”. Tylko fragment listu został przetranskrybowany:

9 June 1945

I ought to have acknowledged your packet at once; but I thought you’d like to have it back soon, with some comment. However, things have been pretty shaky all through May, with an endless series of small extra jobs, exam work, and also death. Especially the sudden death of my very dear friend Charles Williams, the author, which has thrown all our little circle into deep mourning.

Professors, too, seem dying or retiring everywhere, and as I am now (as a survivor) or adviser in half a dozen places, I have had a hell of a lot of letters to write.

I don’t know that I can do or say a lot that would be helpful, as I am not a professional critic, merely an occasional writer and that sort of man is apt simply to feel what he (with his own mode and habit) would have done in such and such a place: not always a good thing in some one else’s work.

And in any case, you say you don’t want to publish merely to amuse yourself (and friends). Well, in order to say anything, I have to imagine these things as offered for publication and anonymous. On those conditions: I should say that the ideas, general and particular, are good…

Tolkien then proceeds to critique his friend’s stories, and finishes:

I am afraid little of this will be legible but I’ve had to scribble a great speed. Anyway here’s to you, and I hope you’ll accept it as a token of friendship. Here’s to our next shared pints.

J R R T

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Kategorie wpisu: Biografia Tolkiena, Listy Tolkiena