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The withdrawal of the novel

We are subjected to that which does not exist        Simone Weil When an old friend …

Kingdoms of recurrence: To Duration by Peter Handke

" I’ve tried to read Karl Ove Knausgaard. But it is impossible… My Struggle lacks air. Liter…

The walled and the book

What draws me back to Thomas Bernhard's novels is the wish to appreciate again how each is set …

From this bare island

From the front page of Brighton & Hove Council's free newspaper. That word, invariably…

The authorisation to invent

The BBC marked Holocaust Day 2015 by showing the nine hours of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah over co…

Book of forgotten dreams

For eighteen years I have wanted the English translation of Georges Bataille's book La Peinture…

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