Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford:

(Merton, Greater London, 17 December 1873 – Deauville, Normandy, 26 June 1939).
English writer and publicist.
He changed his real name, Ford Hermann Hueffer, to Ford Madox Ford in 1919 in honour of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Fenil Haig and Daniel Chaucer.

Photo: biografiasyvidas.com

Why can’t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

Photo by wikipedia.org. Meaning: Lies in the paradox of human desire and dissatisfaction: although everything, in theory, is present to create happiness, people do not have the ability to satisfy their true desires and often choose the wrong thing. Source: ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford (originally published in 1915). The book is famous for its complex morality, subjective narrative style and melancholic insight into human relationships and desires.

 

 

 

 

Door Pieter

Mensenmens, zoon, echtgenoot, vader, opa. Spiritueel, echter niet religieus. Ik hou van golf, wandelen, lezen en de natuur in veel opzichten. Onderzoeker, nieuwsgierig, geen fan van de mainstream media (MSM).

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