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The book is divided into two parts: Enlightenment as viewed by philosophers from Kant to Joseph Ratzinger, a frightening journey where all the ills of modernity are heaped upon the centering of man; the second part, which I have not read yet but appears to be an historian's recuperation of the idea.
December 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The book is divided into two parts: Enlightenment as viewed by philosophers from Kant to Joseph Ratzinger, a frightening journey where all the ills of modernity are heaped upon the centering of man; the second part, which I have not read yet but appears to be an historian's recuperation of the idea.
A book on theory. Both from the Cornell University Press sale.
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A book on theory. Both from the Cornell University Press sale.
Today's book mail.
After many years of listless and skeptical reading about philosophy, borne out of no real taste for the subject and vague antagonism regarding its claims, I have decided to get serious about one philosopher, Kant, who seems congenial to my own disposition. Sapere aude!
After many years of listless and skeptical reading about philosophy, borne out of no real taste for the subject and vague antagonism regarding its claims, I have decided to get serious about one philosopher, Kant, who seems congenial to my own disposition. Sapere aude!
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Today's book mail.
After many years of listless and skeptical reading about philosophy, borne out of no real taste for the subject and vague antagonism regarding its claims, I have decided to get serious about one philosopher, Kant, who seems congenial to my own disposition. Sapere aude!
After many years of listless and skeptical reading about philosophy, borne out of no real taste for the subject and vague antagonism regarding its claims, I have decided to get serious about one philosopher, Kant, who seems congenial to my own disposition. Sapere aude!
This choice is the result of self-delusion. He thinks republicanism will secure for him a perfectly happy refuge of peace and forgetting of the world, and not finding it he sets about creating one for himself.
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This choice is the result of self-delusion. He thinks republicanism will secure for him a perfectly happy refuge of peace and forgetting of the world, and not finding it he sets about creating one for himself.
Zola flips the failure-in-life-to- fascist-foot-soldier script. First such encounter in literature for me.
He is ugly, poor and mediocre, as Zola describes him in the quote below, but instead of becoming a reactionary he chooses to be a republican.
He is ugly, poor and mediocre, as Zola describes him in the quote below, but instead of becoming a reactionary he chooses to be a republican.
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Zola flips the failure-in-life-to- fascist-foot-soldier script. First such encounter in literature for me.
He is ugly, poor and mediocre, as Zola describes him in the quote below, but instead of becoming a reactionary he chooses to be a republican.
He is ugly, poor and mediocre, as Zola describes him in the quote below, but instead of becoming a reactionary he chooses to be a republican.
At this point addicted to the series. Checked out volume 3. I had thought of jumping to vol 18, l'argent, in order to follow the fortunes of one of the main characters of la curée, but decided to follow the series in chronological order of publication dates.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
At this point addicted to the series. Checked out volume 3. I had thought of jumping to vol 18, l'argent, in order to follow the fortunes of one of the main characters of la curée, but decided to follow the series in chronological order of publication dates.
Today's book mail.
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today's book mail.
Recent harvest from the Princeton Sale.
The Rush book is on 16th & 17th century English poetry and what rhyme meant to those poets. Fetters sounds negative.
The Jackson book covers Black poets from late 18th to middle of 19th century and seeks to disrupt the Shelley-Stevens-Ashbery straight line
The Rush book is on 16th & 17th century English poetry and what rhyme meant to those poets. Fetters sounds negative.
The Jackson book covers Black poets from late 18th to middle of 19th century and seeks to disrupt the Shelley-Stevens-Ashbery straight line
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Recent harvest from the Princeton Sale.
The Rush book is on 16th & 17th century English poetry and what rhyme meant to those poets. Fetters sounds negative.
The Jackson book covers Black poets from late 18th to middle of 19th century and seeks to disrupt the Shelley-Stevens-Ashbery straight line
The Rush book is on 16th & 17th century English poetry and what rhyme meant to those poets. Fetters sounds negative.
The Jackson book covers Black poets from late 18th to middle of 19th century and seeks to disrupt the Shelley-Stevens-Ashbery straight line
Liked this essay a lot and its central claim of "iterative narrative" (where a single narrative assertion encompasses multiple repeated events of similar nature like going for a walk or sleepless nights) that structures Proust's text. Genette's structuralist criticism has a mathematical feel that I
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Liked this essay a lot and its central claim of "iterative narrative" (where a single narrative assertion encompasses multiple repeated events of similar nature like going for a walk or sleepless nights) that structures Proust's text. Genette's structuralist criticism has a mathematical feel that I
Today's mail. Jumped right into the Genette essay on Proust in the Essentials book & probably for the first time (in my limited reading of literary criticism) saw an efficacious use of mathematical notations. They distilled in a line what took a page to describe. I have quibbles still about the
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Today's mail. Jumped right into the Genette essay on Proust in the Essentials book & probably for the first time (in my limited reading of literary criticism) saw an efficacious use of mathematical notations. They distilled in a line what took a page to describe. I have quibbles still about the
Loved the first volume. Hence checked out the next in series.
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Loved the first volume. Hence checked out the next in series.
Today's mail. Looking forward to the Sarraute essay on the nouveau roman.
Since the spines do not show them, the subtitle for the Bucholz book is "Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction" and the one for Broch is "The European Imagination, 1860-1920".
Since the spines do not show them, the subtitle for the Bucholz book is "Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction" and the one for Broch is "The European Imagination, 1860-1920".
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Today's mail. Looking forward to the Sarraute essay on the nouveau roman.
Since the spines do not show them, the subtitle for the Bucholz book is "Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction" and the one for Broch is "The European Imagination, 1860-1920".
Since the spines do not show them, the subtitle for the Bucholz book is "Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction" and the one for Broch is "The European Imagination, 1860-1920".
Seeing if I can read this on my phone.
October 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Seeing if I can read this on my phone.
Really enjoyed this melancholic autofiction from Max Frisch which describes a brief affair that he had in his sixties with a far younger woman centering on a weekend they spent together in Montauk. I think I will read the three other books of his I own in short order. There is some thematic & tonal
October 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Really enjoyed this melancholic autofiction from Max Frisch which describes a brief affair that he had in his sixties with a far younger woman centering on a weekend they spent together in Montauk. I think I will read the three other books of his I own in short order. There is some thematic & tonal
Extremely enjoyable and absorbing. Every character no matter how mad, vain, or villainous have one redeeming feature in my eyes, which is that they all love to talk without sounding like a bore.
I am at the point in the novel where the question being debated is whether universal happiness is
I am at the point in the novel where the question being debated is whether universal happiness is
October 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Extremely enjoyable and absorbing. Every character no matter how mad, vain, or villainous have one redeeming feature in my eyes, which is that they all love to talk without sounding like a bore.
I am at the point in the novel where the question being debated is whether universal happiness is
I am at the point in the novel where the question being debated is whether universal happiness is
A finely balanced interior portrait of mental illness based on her own experience with it. There is tremendous anguish obviously but also moments of almost carefree pleasure-seeking. Liked it.
October 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A finely balanced interior portrait of mental illness based on her own experience with it. There is tremendous anguish obviously but also moments of almost carefree pleasure-seeking. Liked it.
intelligence from Europe and finesse from France that aids her planning and plotting.
September 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
intelligence from Europe and finesse from France that aids her planning and plotting.
In the midst of a surrealist novel collection by Pinget with a foreward by Updike written in his usual knowing and shrewd manner. Surrealism is not my favorite genre since it forces me to stop every paragraph or so to orientate myself. Am ambivalent if the juice is worth the squeeze in most cases.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In the midst of a surrealist novel collection by Pinget with a foreward by Updike written in his usual knowing and shrewd manner. Surrealism is not my favorite genre since it forces me to stop every paragraph or so to orientate myself. Am ambivalent if the juice is worth the squeeze in most cases.
Finished the Trollope. I have another novel of his from the Barsetshire series, but for a change of pace this one made it to my reading pile.
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Finished the Trollope. I have another novel of his from the Barsetshire series, but for a change of pace this one made it to my reading pile.
So I ended up liking Fiston Mwanza Mujila's "The Villain's Dance" quite a bit. One Congolese author leads to another. Luckily I had the Mabanckou on hand, who is mentioned Mujila's book as well.
September 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
So I ended up liking Fiston Mwanza Mujila's "The Villain's Dance" quite a bit. One Congolese author leads to another. Luckily I had the Mabanckou on hand, who is mentioned Mujila's book as well.
Here is an excerpt to give a sense of its disjointed, hard and entropic prose. What an unusual combination of words
("sidereal and mercantile ubiquity of men and things") make up the title. Almost sub-John-Ashbery. Also humorous that "snitching" and "jacking beers" are equated to a balanced life.
("sidereal and mercantile ubiquity of men and things") make up the title. Almost sub-John-Ashbery. Also humorous that "snitching" and "jacking beers" are equated to a balanced life.
August 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Here is an excerpt to give a sense of its disjointed, hard and entropic prose. What an unusual combination of words
("sidereal and mercantile ubiquity of men and things") make up the title. Almost sub-John-Ashbery. Also humorous that "snitching" and "jacking beers" are equated to a balanced life.
("sidereal and mercantile ubiquity of men and things") make up the title. Almost sub-John-Ashbery. Also humorous that "snitching" and "jacking beers" are equated to a balanced life.
Trollope is quite addictive. These fun, sweet, gentle novels are a great source of distraction for me.
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Trollope is quite addictive. These fun, sweet, gentle novels are a great source of distraction for me.
Currently reading.
When one reads the early history of the all too human machinations to establish orthodoxy, I do not know how a faith in "one true message from God" can be sustained.
When one reads the early history of the all too human machinations to establish orthodoxy, I do not know how a faith in "one true message from God" can be sustained.
July 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Currently reading.
When one reads the early history of the all too human machinations to establish orthodoxy, I do not know how a faith in "one true message from God" can be sustained.
When one reads the early history of the all too human machinations to establish orthodoxy, I do not know how a faith in "one true message from God" can be sustained.
Picked up these three poetry books at my local bookstore. Not an expert reader of poetry. I do not know my iambs from my trochees, though these are mostly unrhymed and unmetred. Prévert does rhyme in the original. Ben Okri has an embarrassing poem devoted to Obama in this collection.
July 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Picked up these three poetry books at my local bookstore. Not an expert reader of poetry. I do not know my iambs from my trochees, though these are mostly unrhymed and unmetred. Prévert does rhyme in the original. Ben Okri has an embarrassing poem devoted to Obama in this collection.
My desks are too crowded. So I have moved to the only place my lazy self can work, the bed.
July 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My desks are too crowded. So I have moved to the only place my lazy self can work, the bed.