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Ulysses, Ch. 2 (Nestor)
[10 a.m.; Scene: private boy’s school in Dalkey; Art: History; Color: Brown; Symbol: Horse; Technique: Catechism (personal); Nestor=Deasy; Pisistratus, Nestor’s youngest son=Sargent; Helen=Mrs O’Shea] watch for: colors, the number 3, money, — You, Cochrane, what city sent for him? — … Continue reading
Ulysses, Ch. 1 (Telemachus) (pt. 2)
Haines from the corner where he was knotting easily a scarf about the loose collar of his tennis shirt spoke: — I intend to make a collection of your sayings if you will let me. Speaking to me. They wash … Continue reading
Ulysses, Ch. 1 (Telemachus) (pt. 1)
[8 a.m., Thurs, June 16, 1904; Scene: A Martello tower at Sandycove on the shore of Dublin Bay; Art: Theology; Colors: White, Gold; Symbol: Heir; Technique: Narrative (young); Telemachus/Hamlet= Stephen; Antinous/Claudius = Mulligan; Mentor (Athena) = milkwoman] watch for: water/mirror/reflection, … Continue reading
The Curtain by Milan Kundera
This 2005 book, subtitled “An Essay in Seven Parts” is a pretty good follow-up to Kundera’s 1988 collection of interviews and essays The Art of the Novel. While The Art of the Novel focuses more on (as the title implies) … Continue reading
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Tagged don quixote, fielding, flaubert, joyce, kafka, kundera, nationalism, rabelais, sterne, tolstoy, woolf
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Creativity in Exile
I once skimmed through a book by Hana Pichova titled The Art of Memory in Exile. The book is specifically about Vladimir Nabakov and Milan Kundera. It begins with analysis of a novels by each author written while in exile … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken and egg, faulkner, joyce, kundera, library, nabokov, nationalism, speculation, the magus
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