But how unlike is the lot, and how different is the fate, of the writer who has dared to bring to the surface everything that is constantly in front of our noses and which is invisible to indifferent eyes, all the frightful, shocking swamp of trivia that traps our lives, all the depths inhabited by frigid, fragmented squalid creatures which swarm over our earth and our sometimes bitter and dreary path in life, the writer who has dared to use his great strength and his intransigent sculptor’s tools to present them lifelike and in full relief for all the world to see!
