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You write the stuff and you send it out into the world, and that's the end of your task. Whether your  remains go into an archive and what's done with them when they're in there are other people's problems. You can only hope they know what they're doing. Maintained publication is much more important. 

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On 1 Sep 2016, at 19:15, David Bircumshaw wrote:

I wouldn't mind a bit of prehumous recognition before I shuffle off myself. Not a lot, but just a nod that among the consensus of the international middle classes that a piece of working class scum actually showed an occasional aptitude to write, without your ratification or permission. But I know that is too much to ask.

On 31 August 2016 at 12:59, Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Sorry in my last that should be "concerned with the 'literary value...'"
 I'm not entirely sure either about what you mean in the first sentence below - 'remembered in some way...wise for it to be so remembered'. It's not like we're talking about an annual wreath placed on a gravestone. For manuscripts left to a library, the form of remembrance is specific: to be read and consulted. Any other sort of aspiration to posthumous recognition for writers would be merely vain. Perhaps you're implying that even this basic one is also merely vain?




> On 31 Aug 2016, at 12:13, Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> David, I don't think anyone has mentioned let alone focused on 'the monetary value of such works to libraries'. What has been mentioned, in passing, was one motive why writers might sell their manuscripts to libraries. Whether or not we agree with their aesthetic preferences, libraries will presumably be concerned with 'literary value they have and not on the bottom dollar' for their acquisitions. Not even sure where this last idea comes from.
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>> On 30 Aug 2016, at 12:53, David Lace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I suppose it’s understandable that one would want their work remembered in some way, and if that work is deemed “valuable” by some standard, then it might be wise for it to be so remembered. I don’t think this discussion, though, should focus only on the monetary value of such works to libraries etc. I think libraries would be better to focus on any social, cultural, historical and literary value they have and not on the bottom dollar.



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