Keep The Lamp Burning

Michael Cheval

…writers have only one duty, as I see it: the duty to express accurately their way of being in the world….

…When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people’s, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your…