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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 ...
Finnegans Wake: A Short Guide to Readable Books about James Joyce’s Unreadable Book
A certain article which I won’t mention reminded me that I should update my reader’s guide to reader’s guides to Finnegans Wake, since there are a lot of people out there who’d like to read ...
Michael Rosen on Derrida
From Leiter’s blog, Michael Rosen (who wrote the excellent On Voluntary Servitude, a book I would write about if it weren’t so dense that it’d require a huge amount of time to treat it) talks ...
My Secret Science Fiction Past
Perhaps not so secret, but I was raised on the stuff and so I’ve read far more of it than I might have had I been born into a different environment. This list of Gollancz ...
Joyce and the Past
No-one here to hear. Tonight deftly amid wild drink and talk, to pierce the polished mail of his mind. What then? A jester at the court of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a clement ...
Musil on Writing and Ideas
13 August 1910. Before I went to sleep, one or two other things occurred to me about my way of working (in the novellas). What matters to me is the passionate energy of the idea. ...
The Part of Kafka People Forget
It seemed to K. as if at last those people had broken off all relations with him, and as if now in reality he were freer than he had ever been, and at liberty to ...