Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Cites

• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Sympathizer (2016) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word “torture”: in this particular case there is plenty to offset and mitigate that word—even something to laugh at."
    FROM: On the Genealogy of Morals, (1887), Book, Germany
• Roberto Bolaño (1)
  • IN: The Refugees (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time.
    FROM: Antwerp, (2002), Short story, Chile
• James Fenton (1)
  • IN: The Refugees (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.
    FROM: A German Requiem, (1981), Poem, UK