Michael Scammell

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Gangbare naam: Scammell, Michael
Geboortedatum: 1935
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: UK
Geboorteplaats: Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England, UK
Woonplaatsen: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK
Slovenia
New York, USA
London, England, UK
Opleiding: Joint Services School for Linguists
University of Nottingham (B.A. ∙ Slavic Studies ∙ 1958)
Columbia University (Ph.D. ∙ Slavic Studies)
Brockenhurst Grammar School
Beroepen: interpreter, British Army
lecturer in English
translator
biographer
professor of Russian Literature
professor of Writing (Nonfiction) and Translation
Relaties: Scammell, William (brother)
Nossiff, Rosemary (2nd wife)
Organisaties: University of Ljubljana
Hunter College
Writers and Scholars International
International PEN Club
Cornell University
Columbia University (toon alle 7)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a… door Michael Scammell

Interesting quote from Johann Hari in a review on Slate:He [Koestler:] said he was cursed with "absolutitis": When a cause didn't offer him absolute salvation, he would discard it in despair and try to find another with the same promise. The one possibility he never explored for long is the only real answer to suffering—incremental democratic reform. Real improvements in human societies almost always come inch-by-inch, without any grand map of a perfect world. If you demand perfection, you can only be disappointed; if you demand improvement, you can succeed—and build enough hope to fight another day.

See http://www.slate.com/id/2238790/… (meer)

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