Monthly Archives: June 2009

Mirsky on Leskov

Leskov is one of those Russian writers whose knowledge of life was not founded on the possession of serfs, to be later modified by university theories of French or German origin, like Turgenev’s and Tolstoy’s, but on practical and independent experience. This is why his view of Russian life is so unconventional and so free [...]

12 June 2009, 11:57 Comments (0)

Last thoughts on Bolano’s 2666

I let the book sit in my head for a while before writing about the last two sections because Bolano piles up a lot of fairly disparate material in the last two sections, and it’s not easy on first reading to get a sense of how effective the amalgamation is. After a purposefully soporific first [...]

7 June 2009, 16:14 Comments (4)

Robert Walser by Billy Childish

Robert Walser Dead in the Snow. B. Childish 2008

6 June 2009, 08:09 Comments (0)