December 2011
5 posts
“When the book seemed to be going well: ‘there rises before me my special...”
– EM Forster in Concerning EM Forster by Frank Kermode
“If the question of the book achieves its greatest radicality in Mallarmé, it is...”
– from Jacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren.
“Today I got Kierkegaard’s Buch des Richters. As I suspected, despite...”
– Kafka, Diaries 1913.
“It wasn’t until I read your book on Romanticism that I began to understand...”
– Saul Bellow, writing to Owen Barfield in July 1975.