Blanchot, The Book to Come
During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and ...
Continue Reading →Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit), by Walter Benjamin, is an ...
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Beckett, Waiting for Godot
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting ...
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This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls ...
Continue Reading →Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion
Aren’t we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us ...
Continue Reading →Barthes, The Language of Fashion
Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered ...
Continue Reading →Barthes, Mythologies
What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like ...
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Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece
One of Honore de Balzac’s most celebrated tales, “The Unknown Masterpiece” is the story of a painter who, depending on one’s perspective, is ...
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