Danny Yee reviews The Melancholy of Resistance
In the face of unbridled lust for power, withdrawal from the world will fail, whether to the bourgeois’ fortified home, the philosopher’s intellectual retreat, or the dreamer’s imaginative world. Krasznahorkai doesn’t offer this as a political or moral lesson, however, but rather explores the ...
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The re-transnationalization of literary criticism
Carl Henrik Fredriksson argues for a re-transnationalization of literary criticism in Eurozine, and recalls the almost-impossible-to-believe, and not-so-distant, past of literary criticism in Europe: In fact, during some periods and in some places, the discussion of foreign literature was so extensive and lively that it ...
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This will be a light Canadianization
Geist Magazine has a piece on a Spanish instructor at the University of Guelph who was hired to ‘translate’ an American-produced introductory Spanish book into Canadian. One U.S. textbook dismisses NAFTA with a photograph of a harried-looking Mexican woman leaning over a sewing machine, accompanied by the ...
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Simone at 100
The Paris Blog salutes the 100th anniversary of the birth of Simone de Beauvoir, collecting several links to some interesting content (mostly in French) about the author, including some excellent old video ...
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Bookslut on Kertesz
Bookslut reviews Imre Kertesz’s Detective Story: As a chronicler of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz allows no redemption and no transcendence. If you cry while reading Fatelessness or Kaddish for an Unborn Child, you’ll cry bitter, furious tears, but most likely, you won’t be ...
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BBC4 program on Camus
BBC4’s radio program In Our Time has a show dedicated to the life and work of Albert Camus. The Real Player link they provide to the show doesn’t work, but the podcast link appears to be OK. Shortly after the new year of 1960, a small family car crashed in the French town of Villeblevin in Burgundy, killing ...
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2008 PEN World Voices Festival
PEN announced the first event of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. There isn’t any news about other participants, or events, yet, but we’ll keep you posted. The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa When: Friday, May 2 bq. Where: 92nd St. Y: New York City bq. ...
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