Jesus was not your everyday literary critic. Luke tells of his teaching in a synagogue: And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up …
I don't know how people can read an emotional novel. Unless the reader is hoodwinked into thinking the novel can deliver 'real' emotion. — Lee Rourke (@LeeRourke) August 14, 2013 Twitter is an unreliable arena…
The first time Hans Henny Jahnn's trilogy Fluß ohne Ufer came to my attention was in Reiner Stach's biography of Kafka. I noted that of the "five monumental unfinished ruins of modern German-language prose" tha…