Заглавието на The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) на Хосе Доносо идва от писмо на Хенри Джеймс-старши до Уилям и Хенри, неговите синове: Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary […]