Making reference to the fascination of younger writers in the 1960s, he also argued: "The interwar was sending through him a sample of what we were and what we could be, and so retied a string that had been so brutally torn apart".
Făcând trimitere la fascinația exercitată asupra tinerilor scriitori din anii 1960, el a afirmat, de asemenea: „Interbelicul trimitea prin el o mostră de ce am fost și de ce am putea fi, reînnodând astfel un fir rupt cu atâta brutalitate”.