[bykinist]

N.B. Любопытно, что из этой десятки, семь книг принадлежат перу американских писателей. Англия - 2. Ирландия - 1, но первое место!!

А это меня очень впечатлило в школьном возрасте:

"You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can, and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use . . . silence, exile, and cunning."
(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

Не знаю, как к этому относиться сейчас.