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Showing posts with label Blanchot. Show all posts

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

A fundamental deprivation: Montevideo by Enrique Vila-Matas

Perhaps all novels seek to converge on a single point. The thought occurred to me as I read Vila-Matas' Montevideo , translated by Soph...

Monday, May 26, 2025

A mighty contagious absence, part two

On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they ...

Thursday, May 23, 2024

39 Books: 2014

One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in himself where his awareness, instead of losin...

Monday, October 23, 2023

Kevin Hart and the outside

There are two reasons why listening to Kevin Hart's interview on the Hermitix podcast, and reading his new collection and The Dark Gaze...

Monday, July 04, 2022

“Can there be a pure narrative?”

The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back, not to secure a yes or a no, but to keep ...

Friday, January 18, 2019

Axe-books of the year

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us , says Kafka in the famous letter. I wondered what this might mean as the 'books ...

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