Greybeard (1964)
“Building this tale of what happens when no more children are born — and how the whole place goes to pot; only the old are left to die off slowly in their ruinous townships — I felt I was writing not fantasy but rather revealing a truth. We undervalue kids, targets at best for sentimentality.
My marriage had broken down. My wife went off with everything I had; I was ruined, and went to live in one room in a seedy square to be demolished only a few years later to make room for a multi-story car p...ark. And with her, my wife had taken away my small son and daughter.
I had no car. I went by train to see them when I could. My sorrow was intense: two sorts of sorrow—sorrow for myself, losing these dear children and, more intensely, the knowledge that they would feel deeply the loss of their father, with our tenderness and fun, at their tender age.
So I started writing this fable, typing it on a portable Swiss typewriter. The writing act was cathartic.
Yet all the while, I wondered who would wish to read such a miserable tale.MoreLess
My marriage had broken down. My wife went off with everything I had; I was ruined, and went to live in one room in a seedy square to be demolished only a few years later to make room for a multi-story car p...ark. And with her, my wife had taken away my small son and daughter.
I had no car. I went by train to see them when I could. My sorrow was intense: two sorts of sorrow—sorrow for myself, losing these dear children and, more intensely, the knowledge that they would feel deeply the loss of their father, with our tenderness and fun, at their tender age.
So I started writing this fable, typing it on a portable Swiss typewriter. The writing act was cathartic.
Yet all the while, I wondered who would wish to read such a miserable tale.MoreLess
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