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… exasperating. Until recently, he hasn’t had much of an audience outside of Europe. But thanks to New Directions, … we’ve been graced with Krasznahorkai’s four taxing, darkly comic novels: Satantango , War & War , The Melancholy of … In his introduction to Krúdy’s Sunflower , John Lukacs points to “the loneliness of the Hungarian language” as one …
Poetry
… iguanas multiply through the night of blackouts in hospitals and morgues. The iguanas burrow beneath roads to bury … stare stupefied at the bust of a mustachioed poet who died after the bacteria feasted on his heart. The iguanas know nothing of José de Diego, his songs of the guaraguao and the pitirre, the hawk …
Poetry
… Marvel or Cherry Vanilla? It takes 206 bones to make a complete human skeleton, but it has to be the right bones. … & sigh & flutter and will not pay attention. We with our bodies are here to serve them, and so it is not their contempt …
Criticism
… In 1827, Thomas de Quincey suggested that murder was becoming a new medium for the artist: “People begin to see,” … “design” came to the fore: Jack the Ripper marked the bodies of his young female victims with signature mutilations … ball of thread or yarn,” and “had come to mean ‘that which points the way’ because of the Greek myth in which Theseus …
Poetry
… was eleven. Deacon Josiah Haynes was seventy-nine when he died under British gunfire. You can see, I’m reading … Revolution, filled with moments like this: “There were also accounts of British officers slicing off the faces of … for bayoneting the chests of surrendering soldiers, and we come to think life is the pain of military violence. Of …
Criticism
… possible without him. Once you study Freud deeply, once you comprehend and internalize his severe storytelling, his … Freud’s tremendous accomplishments of comprehension. It also sugarcoats or ignores altogether Freud’s immense flaws … one, as he seems to have known. Phillips quotes Freud in Studies on Hysteria : “It still strikes me as strange that the …