Ein schöner Text über Aickman von Margaret Drabble im TLS.
ZitatRobert Aickman is a divisive and disturbing writer. He has devoted admirers, but today many otherwise well-read people have never heard of him. In his lifetime (he died in 1981), he had good friends and was described by some as excellent company, an erudite talker and an adventurous walker. He was renowned as the host of elegant little suppers that he never cooked himself, and as a knowledgeable escort to the theatre and the opera. He enjoyed reading aloud, from his own work or from “out of fashion” authors such as William Gerhardi and Ada Leverson. But he was also contrarian and quarrelsome, and many disliked him. I think, on the evidence of R. B. Russell’s clear-eyed and dispassionate biography, that I would have disliked him, and he me no doubt