bakhtin | bakhtin
Feb.04.2013
I never was one for Freud (who seems to have interpreted almost everything in terms of libido and the death drive) but Jung doesn't have a profound attraction for me either, maybe because they're both into dream analysis and I don't believe that symbols are universal. I somehow doubt that the...
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Aug.08.2012
It is necessary to destroy and rebuild the entire false picture of the world, to sunder the false hierarchical links between objects and ideas, to abolish the divisive ideational strata. It is necessary to liberate all these objects and permit them to enter into the free unions that are organic to...
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Jun.29.2012
"Writing is a means of knowing, and in literature, knowledge is derived through form. New knowledge can only be obtained through new forms. Yet such a process requires distancing oneself from one's readership, not selling books and setting off on a path that Joyce exhausted years ago....
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Mar.07.2012
I had a shift from 50 to 50 today.
The book recommends publishing. Nothing better. Lynn Nesbitt isn't accepting new clients; she recommends getting published. No way better. (Her agency is running a close second to Nicole Aragi.)
I've been focusing my energies on...
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Mar.05.2012
In "Too Vivid for Philosophy: Reflections on Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk, and the Path of Fiction" Askold Melnyczuk's reading of Kundera reveals a limited notion of the political and of story.
Kundera's version of politics, people and the history of the novel is shaped by his experience...
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Dec.07.2010
In the sphere of sport,it might be said that Brian Lara's world view of cricket was such that it enabled him to produce a special brand of batting pyrotechnics,thereby breaking the world test batting record twice-his last epic 400 runs standing almost unassailable.
In the realm of literature and...
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