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Robert K. Merton on the Validity of the Fallible Author
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
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Nancy Pearl on the Personal History
“Eric Kraft has spent his writing career creating a series of comic masterpieces under the general rubric of ‘The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy,’ and am I ever glad he did. In this series of autobiographical tales and writings, Peter Leroy constructs an alternative history of his own life, from birth to adulthood. . . . The meaning of memory and the meaning of self are these novels’ themes. Think of Proust with a sense of humor, or on drugs. . . . Kraft talks about these books as being part of a soup, say a clam chowder, in which all the ingredients are good by themselves (yum! the clams; goody! the potatoes; wow! the onions—sweet as sugar!) but together they’re even better. The books can be read in any order, but be warned: Once you start the series, you won’t want to read anything else until you finish them all.” “Eric Kraft: Too Good to Miss” in Book Lust
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Ulrich on the Ruthlessness of Art
“Extract the meaning from all poetic works, and what you will have is a denial, not complete of course, but an endless series of individual examples that are based on experience, negating all valid rules, principles, and prescriptions on which society is based, the very society that is so fond of these poetic works. Ultimately a poem, and the mystery of it, cuts the meaning of the world clear, where it is bound fast to thousands of ordinary words, cuts it loose, and so makes it into a balloon that goes floating up and away. If we call that beauty, as it is usual to call it, then we ought to see that beauty is an unspeakably ruthless upheaval, far more cruel than any political revolution ever was.” Ulrich, in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
Volume II, The Like of It Now Happens (translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser) |
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Hubertus Gassner on the Self, Producing and Produced
Hubertus Gassner
“The Constructivists: Modernism on the Way to Modernization” in The Great Utopia:The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 |
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THE PERSONAL HISTORY, ADVENTURES, EXPERIENCES & OBSERVATIONS OF PETER LEROY HERE |
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