Frasi di Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e saggista britannico.

È conosciuto per essere stato uno dei membri del Bloomsbury Group e per aver fondato l'istituzione di una nuova forma di biografia in cui l'intuizione psicologica e la simpatia sono combinati con arguzia e irriverenza. Grazie alla sua biografia del 1921 sulla regina Vittoria ha vinto il premio letterario James Tait Black Memorial Prize.



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✵ 1. Marzo 1880 – 21. Gennaio 1932
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Lytton Strachey: Frasi in inglese

“If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.”

Reported in Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey (1967-68) Vol. 2, part 2, ch. 6.
Said on his deathbed.

“Madame, I am the civilization they are fighting for.”

Supposedly said by Strachey in response to a woman who demanded he "fight for civilization" in World War One.
Misattributed

“Pass a person through your mind, with all the documents, and see what comes out. That seems to be your method. Also, choose them, in the first place, because you dislike them.”

Walter Raleigh, letter to Lytton Strachey, May 8, 1918. Published in The Letters of Walter Raleigh (1879-1922) (1926) Vol. 2, p. 479.
Criticism

“His style is perfect joy, and it is only when one has come across a fairer and kindlier handling of one of his victims that one is resentful of his tittering.”

George Lyttelton, letter to Rupert Hart-Davis, October 23, 1957, in The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters Vols. 1 & 2 (1985) p. 374. ISBN 0719542464.
Criticism

“[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: "Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" With an air of noble virtue:] "I would try to get between them."”

Reported in Robert Graves Good-bye to All That (1929), ch. 23.
Said during the First World War to a military tribunal assessing his claim to be treated as a conscientious objector. Variants along the lines of "I should try to interpose my body" are also sometimes quoted.

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