Quelques extraits choisis des oeuvres d'Hermann Hesse, à propos de la solitude qui lui était si chère.

"Fabrice découvre, étonné, tout ce que sa cellule peut lui offrir : la solitude, la sécurité, le calme."

"Few writer’s rooms are quite so emblematic as the strange solipsistic environment of Proust’s cork-lined bedchamber..."

"For Hamlet and heroes such as him, loneliness represents fulfilment, even if on another level."

"There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man."

"Of all things which men do or make here below by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."

"Being a disease of self-consciousness — insomnia perhaps inevitably plagues a disproportionately high number of writers."

"He was bred to no profession," says Emerson ;"he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted..."

"Ma tristesse me vient de plus loin que moi-même, Elle m’est étrangère et ne m’appartient pas" La Voix La Sandale ailée, 1906 Je ne veux...

Chopin vu par Marcel Proust, Émile Nelligan, Maurice Rollinat... et à travers diverses représentations picturales.

[Essay] "Chekhov possessed a practical wisdom that enabled him to care for those he loved and to help others."

"The meaning of his aloneness is that, as bringer of light or changer of consciousness, Endymion must overcome darkness."

"The Odyssey describes a spiritual quest from multiplicity and Strife back to unity and Love."

Fernand Gregh est l'un de ces poètes pour qui le Temps a été fatal. Mais sa plume sensible et limpide n'a pas vieilli.

"Tolstoy called Chekhov, ­­and rightly so, "an artist of life". (...)"

"Hamlet's mind," the critic says, "is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without."

Tourmenté et audacieux, mélancolique et facétieux, Jules Laforgue (1860-1897) laisse derrière lui une oeuvre complexe et détonnante.