About Waste literature quote
The Waste literature quote belongs to the more
curiosity-related sections of the site of Camelot Consulting. Waste in fact is
a subject which occurs rather frequently in literature, even if it in general
is of secondary importance. Below follows a list of those
Waste literature quote of the month which have been published
so far:
November 2006: Claude Simon, "The route to Flandres"
December 2006: Wladyslaw Reymont, "The promised land"
January 2007: William Butler Yeats, "Last Poems"
February 2007: Orhan Pamuk, "The black book"
March 2007: Heinrich Böll, "Fürsorgliche Belagerung"
April 2007: Sven Grafström, "Notes"
May 2007: Dario Fo, "The naked man and the man in dress coat"
June 2007: Émile Zola, "The Halls"
July 2007: V.S. Naipaul, "Among the believers"
August 2007 1st half: Octavio Paz, "Every day's fire"
Week 34 2007: Niklas Rådström, "While time ponders elsewhere"
Week 35 2007: Kerstin Ekman, "Illuminated town"
Week 36 2007: Heinrich Böll, "The opinions of a clown"
Week 37 2007: Günter Grass, "The female rat"
Week 38 2007: George Bernard Shaw, "Pygmalion"
Week 39 2007: Kjell Espmark, "The journey of Voltaire"
Week 40 2007: John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"
Week 41 2007: Robert Musil, "The man without features"
Week 42 2007: John Irving, "Water method man"
Week 43 2007: Sinclair Lewis, "The willow alley"
Week 44 2007: Edmond Goncourt, "Diary from the French-German war"
Week 45 2007: Louis de Geer, "Memories"
Week 46 2007: J M Coetze, "Disgrace"
Week 47 2007: Sven Hedin, "Asia"
Week 48 2007: Meister Eckehart, "Teacher and Preacher"
Week 49 2007: Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, "Bombi Bitt and Nick Carter"
Week 50 2007: Doris Lessing, "Four-gated city"
Week 51 2007: Albert Camus, "The first man"
Week 52 2007: Sven Grafström, "Notes"
Week 1 2008: August Strindberg, "Historic miniatures"
Week 2 2008: "Kalevala"
Week 3 2008: Sven Stolpe, "Time of war"
Week 4 2008: Valter Åman, "Scratches in the paint"
Week 5 2008: Alf Svensson, "Here comes Alf Svensson"
Week 7 2008: Anna-Greta Leijon, "All roses shall not be pruned"
Week 8 2008: Bruno Kreisky, "Shifting periods"
Week 9 2008: Claude Simon, "Jardin des plantes"
Week 10 2008: V.S. Naipual, "A way in the world"
Week 11 2008: Paul Johnson, "Modern times"
Week 12 2008: Klas Östergren, "Wonders in September"
Week 13 2008: Eyvind Johnson, "Farewell to Hamlet"
Week 14 2008: Göran Tunström, "The sacred geographers"
Week 15 2008: Per Wästberg, "The source of the moutain"
Week 16 2008: Lars Gyllensten, "The palace in the park"
Week 17 2008: August Strindberg, "Swedish destinies and adventures"
Week 18 2008: Kerstin Ekman, "Revitalize me"
Week 19 2008: John Steinbeck, "Pastures of heaven"
Week 20 2008: Herbert Tingsten, "My life"
Week 21 2008: Pearl Buck, "China as I see it"
Week 22 2008: Patrick White, "The eye of the storm"
Week 23 2008: Anders L Johansson, "The road agitator"
Week 24 2008: Hillary Clinton, "Living history"
Week 25 2008: Barack Obama, "My father had a dream"
Week 26 2008: Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Shadows on the Hudson"
Week 27 2008: John Steinbeck, "America and Americans"
Week 28 2008: William Faulkner, "A fable"
Week 29 2008: Saul Bellow, "Humboldt's gift"
Week 31 2008: Nadine Gordimer, "Jump"
Week 32 2008: Barack Obama, "My father had a dream"
Week 33 2008: Patrick White, "The cockatoos"
Week 34 2008: Eugene O'Neill, "Hughie"
Week 35 2008: Anders L Johansson, "The road agitator"
Week 36 2008: Hillary Clinton, "Living history"
Week 37 2008: Herbert Tingsten, "My life"
Week 39 2008: Frans G Bengtsson, "The life and times of Karl XII"
Week 40 2008: Herbert Tingsten, "My life"
Week 41 2008: Anders L Johansson, "The road agitator"
Week 42 2008: John Updike, "Toward the end of time"
Week 43 2008: John Irving, "Until I find you"
Week 47 2008: Doris Lessing, "The good terrorist"
Week 48 2008: Harold Pinter, "The caretaker"
Week 49 2008: Nadine Gordimer, "The conservationist"
Week 50 2008: Grahem Greene, "The power and the glory"
Week 51 2008: Mark Twain, "Roughing it"
Week 52 2008: Doris Lessing, "Alfred and Emily"
Week 1 2009: J.M.G. Le Clézio, "Révolutions"
Week 2 2009: Ulla Lindström, "And the government stayed in office"
Week 3 2009: Carl Sandburg, "Chicago Poems"
Week 4 2009: Carl Sandburg, "Slabs of the sunburnt west"
Week 5 2009: Carl Sandburg, "The people, yes"
Week 6 2009: Nadine Gordimer, "The conservationist"
Week 7 2009: J M Coetze, "Youth"
Week 8 2009: J M G Le Clézio, "Révolutions"
Week 9 2009: Claude Simon, "Jardin des Plantes"
Week 10 2009: Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"
Week 11 2009: Sara Lidman "The wonderful man"
Week 12 2009: August Blanche "The ghost"
Week 13 2009: Kerstin Ekman, "Revitalize me"
Week 14 2009: Honoré de Balzac, "Le curé de village"
Week 15 2009: Charles Dickens, "Dombey and Son"
Week 16 2009: Torsten Gårdlund, "Marcus Wallenberg"
Week 17 2009: Anders L Johansson, "The road agitator"
Week 18 2009: V S Naipaul, "The enigma of arrival"
Week 19 2009: Nadine Gordimer, "The house gun"
Week 20 2009: Siegfried Lenz, "Fundbüro"
Week 21 2009: J M G Le Clézio, "Révolutions"
Week 22 2009: Hans Fallada, "Wolf unter Wölfen"
Week 23 2009: Heinrich Heine, "Memoiren"
Week 24 2009: Heinrich Böll, "Wo liegt Paris?"
Week 25 2009: Eva Moberg, "Young Liberals 1961"
Week 27 2009: Heinrich Böll, "We Germans - A travelling people"
Week 29 2009: Aleksandra Kollontaj, "Diaries - June 1931"
Week 31 2009: Göran Persson, "My way, my choices"
Week 32 2009: Erik Fichtelius, "Always lonely, never alone"
Week 33 2009: Siegfried Lenz, "Das Vorbild"
Week 34 2009: Max Frisch, "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän"
Week 35 2009: Göran Persson, "My way, my choices"
Week 36 2009: Günter Grass, "Unkenrufe"
Week 37 2009: Heinrich Böll, "Ende einer Dienstfahrt"
Week 38 2009: Siegfried Lenz, "Die Auflehnung"
Week 39 2009: Doris Gercke, "Kein fremder Land"
Week 40 2009: Heinrich Böll, "Ende einer Dienstfahrt"
Week 41 2009: Göran Persson, "My way, my choices"
Week 42 2009: Klas Östergren, "The phantoms"
Week 32 2019: Doris Lessing, "If the Old could"
Week 33 2009: Björn Ranelid, "Tyst i klassen"
Week 34 2009: Mildred von Platen, "I skuggan av ett företag"
The waste literature passages in many cases consist of a single sentence, such as for
example the waste bin metaphore of Dario Fo and the characteristics of the dustman
profession of George Bernard Shaw, but there are also examples of more extensive elaborations
on the waste topic, which we find for example in the works of V.S. Naipaul and Albert Camus
respectively, which are to be seend as two of the foremost waste authors, beside also Heinrich
Böll, Günter Grass and Claude Simon, which often return to the waste issue and do not only
treat it in a superficial manner. In Sweden Kerstin Ekman is a narrator who in many of
her works mentions waste in one way or another. There may be reason to divide the waste
literature quotes into a few main categories, whereof the first consists of descriptions of
the dustman profession, which occurs for example in books by Robert Musil, John Steinbeck
and Eyvind Johnson. Another category is made up of descriptions of the waste material,
its composition, smelling etc. and here for example Claude Simon, Kerstin Ekman and
Emile Zola could be mentioned and in a way it is very logic, that the realistic literary
school, one of whose foremost respresentatives Zola is, has this approach. A special
area within the waste literature is the description of waste management outside Europe, in countries
where the waste management methods are not as well developed, which gives rise to gigantic
waste terrains which in a more obvious manner than in Europe melts together with the civilization and
if any particular author is to be brought up here, it would perhaps be V.S. Naipaul, but also
Swedish writers such as Per Wästberg and Kjell Espmark have given contributions to this
part of the waste library. Waste is thus a topic which neiter the casual nor the systematic
reader can avoid and the explanation for the presence of waste in literature may be that
waste is something which occurs in all civilisations, old as well as new, industrialized as
well as non-industrialized and in conection to all kinds of human activities, economic as well
as non-economic. Possibly waste could be said to be one of those subjects which the
Victorian era has managed to avoid, because who has ever heard of waste in the books
of Thackeray, Elliot, Fitzgerald och Brontë.
Waste occurs in almost all literature, since waste is
inevitably associated to civilisation, possibly with the
exception of English 19. century novelists, whose victorian
influences made them avoid the waste subject
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