February 2012
10 posts
“For several years I had tried to write about my father, but had gotten nowhere,...”
– from My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
“The gratifying aspect of the image is that it constitutes a limit at the edge of...”
– from Two Versions of the Imaginary.
“Just as Houellebecq is obsessed with what he considers art’s inability to...”
– from Scott Esposito’s review at BookForum.
“A composer cannot be anxious, Massimo, he said. An artist cannot be anxious. To...”
– An extract from Infinity: The Story of a Moment published in The Reader Magazine No. 34
“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has...”
– Letter to Max Brod, 1922.
“The only thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow it is. That, like all...”
– From Experience.
“During my studies in Freiburg I found myself saying to a friend that if there is...”
– From the preface to The Bodily Dimension in Thinking by Daniela Vallega-Neu.