1930-, American Novelist
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Harry Mathews – [Choice]
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints –the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk –we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Harry Mathews – [Language]
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Harry Mathews – [Translation]