Who is whistling? - Felice Cavallotti

Italian politician and dramatic author Felice Cavallotti (1842-1898) couldn’t accept the fact that the audience didn’t like some of his theatrical works. When some critic heavily attacked one of his work after its premiere, Cavallotti went straight to the editor of the paper that published the article.

“That critic of yours didn’t like my work because of my party allegiances!" - Shouted Cavallotti.

“Dear mister Cavallotti,” the editor answered him calmly, “those who booed your work at the theater weren’t members of some political party, but a very small group of people that have actually watched your play”.

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Inspiration!

Stanley Crouch

 When the American writer Toni Morrison was awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, many American literary critics have been dissatisfied with this choice of members of the Nobel Committee.

Unable to refrain from malicious remarks, a prominent theorist of literature, Stanley Crouch, in a newspaper wrote an article with the following content:

"I hope that a Nobel Prize will inspire Toni Morrison, and that she will begin to write better books than those she has written so far."

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