The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot’s thought. In it he reflects on ...
Continue Reading →The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege ...
Continue Reading →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 →From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting ...
Continue Reading →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 ...
Continue Reading →In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks “to understand the chemistry of ...
Continue Reading →The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel’s protagonist, Howard Roark, is an ...
Continue Reading →Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses ...
Continue Reading →Marina Warner begins with the gospels, noting the slight allusions to Mary, and the curious confusions between the two women of that name. ...
Continue Reading →Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1816). By choosing in ...
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