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 It is surprising how much, from the habit of regarding
writing as an accomplishment, is wasted on form. A very little information or
wit is mixed up with a great deal of conventionalism in the style of expressing
it, as with a sort of preponderating paste or vehicle. Some life is not simply
expressed, but a long-winded speech is made, with an occasional attempt to put a
little life into it.
—Henry David Thoreau
—Borduas,
Paul-Emile,
“Refus global”
—Camus,
Albert, “L’Artiste et son temps”
—Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
—Chomsky,
Noam,
“Propaganda, American-style”
—Coleman, Wanda,
"Coulda Shoulda Woulda"
—Douglass,
Frederick,
“What
to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
—Emerson,
Ralph Waldo,
“Self-Reliance”
—Ferré,
Léo,
“Préface”
—Falardeau,
Pierre, La Liberté n’est pas une marque de yaourt
—Foucault,
Michel, "Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia"
(six lectures given at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1983)
—Fromm, Eric, The Sane Society
—Goldman, Emma,
“Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty”
—Goytisolo,
Juan,
“Vamos a menos”
—Havel,
Vaclav, Open Letters (e.g.,
“Dear Dr. Husak" and
"The Power of the
Powerless”)
—Ibsen, Henrik,
An Enemy of the People (Editor's
analysis)
—Ingersoll, Robert Green,
"Liberty in Literature"
et al
—Landry, Ulysse,
“La verite en mange une claque”
—Lévesque,
Raymond, A
bon entendeur, salut!
—Levi, Primo, Se questo e un
uomo
—King, Jr., Martin Luther,
"The Purpose of Education"
—Lewis,
Sinclair, "Letter to the Pulitzer Prize Committee"
—Lewis,
Sinclair,
“The American Fear of Literature”
(Nobel Lecture-1930)
—Mamet,
David, “First Principles" (Writing in Restaurants)
—Mencken,
H.L., A Mencken Chrestomathy (“Bearers of the Torch,” etc..)
—Nader,
Ralph, “The Concord Principles: An Agenda for a New Initiatory
Democracy”
—Orwell,
George,
“Prevention of
Literature”
—Orwell,
George,
"As I Please"
(Orwell's newspaper column)
—Poe, Edgar Allan, "Criticism"
(The Quacks of Helicon)
—Rushdie, Salman,
"A legal shield against
offense?"
—Saramago,
José,
“Hemos llegado al fin de una civilización”
(El País, 11/19/00)
—Shalamov, Varlan,
Kolyma Tales
—Solzhenitsyn,
Aleksandr, “1978 graduation ceremony address to Harvard University”
—Solzhenitsyn,
Aleksandr, The Oak and the Calf
—Thoreau,
Henry David,
“Civil
Disobedience"
—Tremblay, Odile,
"Guidounes culturelles"
—Xingjian,
Gao, “The Case for Literature”
(Nobel Lecture-1999)
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