काही झालं तरी एक योजनाशून्य अभिनयाकार...For Vilas Sarang Is a Live Presence...

Today April 14 2016 is the first death anniversary of Vilas Sarang (विलास सारंग), for me, the greatest prose writer in Marathi

W. H. Auden:

"...to us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives:..."

Jonathan Bate:

"...But the experience of reading the classics is a genuine dialogue with the dead. For Manguel, Dante and Montaigne are living presences. As is Conrad for Clive James (he made me think: “Yes, I must go back to Conrad, haven’t read him for years and years”). When James is dead he will live on through his books..."

विलास सारंग, ‘अमर्याद आहे बुद्ध’ , 2011

“...काही  झालं  तरी, एखाद्या पुरुषाचं  अगर स्त्रीचं जीवन म्हणजे काही एक अखंड साखळी नसते; ती  किंवा  तो क्षणभर लुकलुकणाऱ्या आणि विझणाऱ्या  ज्योतीसारखा एक योजनाशून्य अभिनयाकार असतो...”