The absence of a controlling authorial personality
From Beckett’s early lectures on literature: “To read Balzac is to receive the impression of a chloroformed world.”
From Beckett’s early lectures on literature: “To read Balzac is to receive the impression of a chloroformed world.”
Back in 2000 The New Yorker published a possible photograph of Emily Dickinson that scholar Philip Gura purchased on Ebay for an astonishingly low sum. Until the image surfaced, and still, the only authenticated portrait of the poet was the pensive and haunting Amherst College daguerreotype we all know. I remember seeing the “Talk of the Town” piece on Gura’s . . .
In Michael Miller’s article on the uncertainties of publishing, my friend Lauren tells her secrets.
Autograf? Mon sequitur? Anec-gloat? I-gression? Help choose the best term for book reviewers’ lapses into self-congratulatory autobiography.
Oscar Wilde’s remarks on the moral significance of Dorian Gray are arguably inconsistent, but inarguably fascinating.