Author: Dan Vyleta

Cites

• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: Smoke (2016) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Those who study the physical sciences, and bring them to bear upon the health of Man, tell us that if the noxious particles that rise from vitiated air were palpable to the sight, we should see them lowering in a dense black cloud above such haunts, and rolling slowly on to corrupt the better portion of a town. But if the moral pestilence that rises with them. . could be made discernible too, how terrible the revelation!
    FROM: Dombey and Son, (1848), NULL, UK
• Heinrich Boll (2)
  • IN: The Crooked Maid (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: I am afraid of houses in which one grows comfortable and allows oneself to be taken in by the banal truth that life goes on and time heals all wounds.
    FROM: Billards at Half-Past Nine, (1959), Novel, Germany
  • IN: The Quiet Twin (2011) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: And I wil take a further secret to the grave: that I once observed Mother, how she secretly went into the cellar larder, cut herself a thick slice of ham and ate it downstairs, standing up, with her hands, hurriedly, it didn't even look repulsive, just surprising, I was more touched thatn appalled [...] Curiously enough, I like those of whose kinds I am: human beings.
    FROM: A Clown's Perspectives, (1963), Novel, Germany
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Crooked Maid (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: In answering them, he said, among other things, that he had indeed been away from Russia for a long time, more than four years, that he had been sent abroad on account of illness,.. listening to him, the swarthy man grinned several times; he laughed particularly when, to his question: "And did they cure you?" the blond man answered: "no they didn't."
    FROM: The Idiot, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Honoré de Balzac (1)
  • IN: Pavel and I (2008) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: I was in the habit of observing the ways of the faubourg, its residents and their characters [...] Observation had already become deeply ingrained in me, it took hold of the soul without neglecting the body, or rather, it seized on external details so well that it immediately moved beyond them, it gave me the ability to live the life of a person upon whom I had trained my sights by allowing me to substitute myself for him, like the dervish in 1001 Nights who stole people's bodies and souls after pronouncing certain words over them.
    FROM: Facino Cane, (1836), Short story, France
• Sigmund Freud (1)
  • IN: Pavel and I (2008) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: It is a striking and generally observed characteristic of the conduct of paranoiacs that they endow small, negligible details in the behaviour of others with enormous significance; they interpret these details and find in them grounds for far-reaching conclusions.
    FROM: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, (1901), Book, Czech Republic