Articles
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Larisa Shepitko’s “The Ascent”: An Archaic Iconography
The Ascent draws on “the great ‘storehouse’ of those images and symbols without which there is no ‘great tradition’ transmitted from generation to generation.” The film’s narrative imitates the events of the Passion, but, what is perhaps more important, it appropriates the iconography of its depiction in Western art.
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What Occurs at Night time by Peter Cameron
Humorous and haunting, gothic and dazzling—What Occurs at Night time is a novel in contrast to something you’ve ever learn. Referred to as “astonishing” (Michael Cunningham) and “thrillingly mysterious and gorgeously written” (Sigrid Nunez), it’s a spellbinding Franz Kafka-Wes Anderson story a couple of couple touring to a mysterious lodge and the characters they meet there. An…
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Prostitute, writer, feminist: Grisélidis Réal
Prostitute, writer, artist, trafficker, convict, feminist: Grisélidis Réal was an eternal cursed lover. Correspondence and interviews make it possible to (re) discover this figure of the literature.
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Subway poems
What is a subway poem? I write subway poems from time to time. This poem is one of them. Do you want to know what a subway poem is? Let’s say the answer is yes. So here’s what a subway poem is. A metro poem is a poem composed in the metro, during the time…
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Extract from ‘A Season with Verona’
Incanto Hellas Verona vinci per noi! I still remember my amazement when I first heard myself shouting those words. “Hellas Verona, win for us.” It’s a kind of liturgy. Next you yell: Hellas Verona segni per noi! I yell it with all my heart. Self-control ebbs away. “Hellas Verona score for us!” Then the whole Curva…
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Antoine Volodine – Radiant Terminus
Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union.
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Alberto Savinio – Tragedy of Childhood
Childhood — a continuous wave of revolution, systematically crushed by those reactionaries, the “grown ups.” A tireless revolution and never disappointed, because it has no inkling of the defeat in store for it. The rear guard does not see the trap into which the vanguard gradually falls. Brave, trusting, the march has gone on ever…