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- CENTRAL: Second Floor (2 copies)
Later essays
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2017]
Physical Description
xi, 865 pages ; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Contents
- Under the sign of Saturn On Paul Goodman ; Approaching Artaud ; Fascinating fascism ; Under the sign of Saturn ; Syberberg's Hitler ; Remembering Barthes ; Mind as passion
- AIDS and its metaphor Where the stress falls A poet's prose ; Where the stress falls ; Afterlives : the case of Machado de Assis ; A mind in mourning ; The wisdom project ; Writing itself : on Roland Barthes ; Walser's voice ; Danilo Kiš ; Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke ; Pedro Páramo ; DQ ; A letter to Borges ; A century of cinema ; A novel into film : Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz ; A note on Bunraku ; A place for fantasy ; The pleasure of the image ; About Hodgkin ; A lexicon for Available light ; In memory of their feelings ; Dancer and the dance ; Lincoln Kirstein ; Wagner's fluids ; An ecstasy of lament ; One hundred years of Italian photography ; On Bellocq ; Borland's babies ; Certain Mapplethorpes ; A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it? ; Homage to Halliburton ; Singleness ; Writing as reading ; Thirty years later ; Questions of travel ; The idea of Europe (one more elegy) ; The very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe (an interlude) ; Answers to a questionnaire ; Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo ; "There" and "here" ; Joseph Brodsky ; On being translated
- Regarding the pain of others At the same time : essays and speeches Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump ; Foreword by David Rieff ; An argument about beauty ; 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsevtayeva, Rilke ; Loving Dostoyevsky ; A double destiny : on Anna Banti's Artemisia ; Unextinguished : the case for Victor Serge ; Outlandish : on Halldór Laxness's Under the glacier ; 9.11.01 ; A few weeks after ; One year after ; Photography : a little summa ; Regarding the torture of others ; The conscience of words ; The world as India ; On courage and resistance ; Literature is freedom ; At the same time : the novelist and moral reasoning --