Haiku Lessons
To write a haiku, one must absolutely respect four qualities: Sabi: simplicity and an awareness of the passage of time, which alters things and...
Category: Literature
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...
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 few quotes that...
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 cared...
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 suspended...
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—we are always told….