John C. Hawkes Quotes
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
Hawkes, John. "John Hawkes: An Interview." Interview by John Enck. Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. 6, no. 2, University of Wisconsin Press, 1965, pp. 141-155.
He had been the President of the Soviet Union which was all of a sudden 15 different nations. He resigned immediately.
What is particularly interesting about this quotation is that at the time, this was a common concern by political and social thinkers of the West. Here however, we learn that there was apparently the same concern and problem ongoing in the Muslim Middle East.
John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.
