The focus of the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-book series My Struggle is in the foreground of its narrative and in the title of the UK edition – A Death in the Family – which for the book-devouring industry mit…
Poetry, ladies and gentlemen: an expression of infinitude, an expression of vain death and of mere Nothing . These were the first words I read from The Meridian , a speech given by Paul Celan on October 22nd 1960 in the Germa…