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Novalis: Monologue
The excellent piece on Novalis in this week’s TLS quoted a bit of his brilliant Monolog, and it’s short enough I figured I’d just post the whole thing here: Speaking and writing is a crazy ...
Jun, 19
Chateau d’Argol by Julien Gracq
Gracq’s somewhat decadent, very symbolist French novel from 1938 reads like a cross between Borges and Cocteau. In telling the story of a trio of youths, two men and one women, who live out an erotic ...
Jul, 16
The Deflation of Romanticism in Alexander Kuprin’s The Duel
Kuprin wrote this novel based on his own experiences in the army in the 1890s, about a sensitive man not cut out for the mechanistic and emotionally brutal army life. It is not a masterpiece ...
Apr, 15
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