Literature
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One more stopover…
Alvaro Mutis is a truly great writer and, what's more, one of my dearest friends. Since he hasn't published any books for a few years now, I thought I'd pay him a small tribute through quotes from "The Last Stop of the Tramp Steamer," this short novel brimming with… Continue reading
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What Mr. Ouine says in our time…
Monsieur Ouine, one of the greatest French novels of the 20th century, offers many answers to the modern world as it is. The following quotes provide a glimpse into the evil that insinuates itself everywhere. Continue reading
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The virtues of boredom
In a short, acerbic book (On France, translated by Alain Paruit, L'Herne), Emil Cioran offered an answer to the French malaise. He explained how much he valued boredom, but he distinguished between two kinds: the kind that opens "its doors to infinity," "as a spiritual extension of an immanent void of being," and the kind that… Continue reading
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Notes on The Child of Pleasure
Notes on Gabriele D'Annunzio's *The Child of Pleasure*. P. 58. Between the Trinity obelisk and the Conception column, I hung my Catholic and pagan heart as a votive offering. She laughed at his remark. He had a madrigal on his lips about his suspended heart; but he didn't utter it, for… Continue reading
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Onfray's cries of outrage
So Onfray read a book that reveals the making of Ernst Jünger… Michel Vanoosthuyse: Fascism and Pure Literature. It reveals—according to the self-proclaimed philosopher of sensuality—that Jünger was always a fascist and that he spent years, a large part of his life, half a century, erasing the traces of… Continue reading