The perspective from Stendahl’s mirror?
Stendhal called the novel “a mirror that one walks down a road.” Did he have in mind a perspective like Google Street View’s? (Via.)
Stendhal called the novel “a mirror that one walks down a road.” Did he have in mind a perspective like Google Street View’s? (Via.)
Tod Linafelt argues, contra James Wood, that the Bible “may be read not only as a foil to Flaubert (and other novelists) but also as a precursor.” (Via.)
“In my teens I gave up Catholicism, and at the same time I started writing.” — John Banville, in the current Paris Review
Geoff Manaugh gets his first look at the completed BLDGBLOG book, which means it won’t be long before I can hold one in my hands.