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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 metaphors
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 --