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Literary Criticism

  • ~ Potpourri: Paris

    ~ Potpourri: Paris

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    Copi channels his fascination with lowlives, queer people, immigrants and other outcasts

  • The anarcho-astrologer

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    Javier Milei, literarily considered

  • Doom is in the details

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    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.

  • To see a city

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    « What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something…

  • Eat the dust

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    Søren Kierkegaard compared reading reviews of his books to « the long martyrdom of being trampled to death by geese. » What martyrdoms does today’s bookishness portend?

  • Beyond thalassophobia

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    German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck has more than twenty books to his name. It is tempting to read his fiction for glimpses of Green political futures, and his literary criticism for…

  • Woman is space

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    « Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the…