Frank McCourt - I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'T...

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I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.

Frank McCourt

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich wollte all das literarische Zeug vermeiden. Ich wollte nicht das Selbstmitleid von "The Portrait", all das Stöhnen und Klagen. Ich klopfe nicht an Joyce: Wir alle schulden ihm eine Schuld. Er hat so viel möglich gemacht.

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