Louis de Bernieres
Louis de Bernieres
Louis de Bernièresis a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 December 1954
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Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.