Nick Bottom’s Blessing
by Jascha Kessler
March 26th, 2007
The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity’s sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice. Both however are necessary.
Archive for the ‘Literary Themes’ Category
Reflections On the Work of Paul Auster
by Garan Holcombe
March 25th, 2007
Paul Auster is a writer, who like Beckett is obsessed with identity and the way it is constructed out of and through the medium of stories, words, or even the thinnest of airs.
Life Without Max: The Genius of W.G. Sebald
by Garan Holcombe
March 25th, 2007
Other writers such as Geoff Dyer and Alain de Botton have also established themselves as exponents of a similar type of hybrid writing style. Yet they are more obviously producing non-fiction and neither has written anything to rival Austerlitz, the best of Sebald’s work.
Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
by Nandan Datta
March 16th, 2007
I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many trials and as many errors, I finally made it one August. It was the festival of the earth.
Watchman, What of the Night?
by Jascha Kessler
March 16th, 2007
The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely recognized, let alone understood.
