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The Galley Slave, by Drago Jančar
A grotesque Slovenian novel of plague and witch trials, set in the 17th century. It chronicles a single man’s psychic dissolution in the face of conflicting chaos and superstition.
The Guinea Pigs, Ludvik Vaculik
[This is an old review which I'm bumping because Open Letters has recently republished this book, for which I am grateful. It has stayed with me as one of the greatest Communist allegories I have ...
The Stasis of Spaces in Kafka’s Trial
[Introductory note: this is a very old paper. It strikes me now as immensely callow in voice and construction, yet I don't find it too embarrassing. I think this is because Kafka is very receptive ...
Nikolai Leskov
Slightly late here, but I did write an essay on Nikolai Leskov over at the Quarterly Conversation, the fantastic and strange 19th century Russian writer. I hope his works are reprinted and retranslated. My old ...
Jenny Diski on Erving Goffman
Rejecting any possibility of an essential identity, his notion is of the self as purely contingent, a shape-shifting construction of altering circumstances. The individual, Goffman says, arrives into an already established social world, and is ...
Michael Haneke: The White Ribbon
I do not have to pay $3.50 to find out what it feels like to be a Jew. George S. Kaufman on Gentleman’s Agreement I do not like Michael Haneke. I do not like his ...
R. Sikoryak’s Masterpiece Comics
I’ve been reading Sikoryak’s parodies in one form or another since I was a teenager and saw “Good Ol’ Gregor Brown” (Charlie Brown does Kafka) in RAW. Finally they’ve been collected into a book. Here ...