Frank Kermode Professions : Literary critic Born : November 29, 1919 Died : August 17, 2010 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Frank Kermode It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end. Frank Kermode charm ends book It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives. Frank Kermode helping trying way I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear. Frank Kermode differences doors science It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. Frank Kermode encounters fiction Similar Authors Bliss Perry literary-critic Irving Howe literary-critic Diana Trilling literary-critic Daphne Merkin literary-critic Henry Louis Gates literary-critic Harold Bloom literary-critic All Authors
