Handling rejection, gracefully

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Handling rejection, gracefully

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Editado: Sep 8, 2007, 12:02 pm

There is a short essay in the Sunday NYT Book Review entitled, " No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov" on famous rejections by Knopf, including Lolita and Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

http://nytimes.com

It brings to my mind the most famous rejection of all, Andre Gide's decision to forgo Swann's Way. It was the one of the greatest regrets of his life as he wrote to Proust:

"the rejection of this book will remain . . . one of the most poignantly remorseful regrets of my life . . ." With characteristic grace Proust replied: "Had there been no rejection ... I should never have had your letter."

Such an exquisite man, our writer.