Autumn Books
It is my favourite time of the year for book buying, when publishers release the highest volume of compelling books. Most of the books I buy during the year are older releases, filling gaps in my...
View ArticleLibrary Additions 13th January 2012
To welcome me home this evening, three packages bearing pre-ordered books, all of which are intended for consumption over the next six months. I found the Kristof edition today at the LRB.Filed under:...
View ArticleThe Roving Shadows by Pascal Quignard
Enigma. I’ve always loved that word, from the Greek ainos, meaning fable or riddle, also from ainissesthai, to speak obscurely or in riddles. A word raised to prominence by that scoundrel Churchill...
View ArticleSeagull Books / My Sense of Soul
Regular readers of Time’s Flow Stemmed will know of my profound admiration of Seagull Books. In a time of sweeping intellectual nihilism, Seagull publish books that change the possibilities of art,...
View ArticleMost Anticipated New Books for 2018
In the first few months of last year I sampled rather more contemporary fiction than is usual for me. Frankly much of it wasn’t to my taste and ended up abandoned. Contemporary literature in any period...
View ArticleGetting away from the gang (Pascal Quignard)
[..] fleeing at full speed whenever I catch sight of bodies that have any sort of faith in any sort of institution or being; fleeing the feebleminded and atrocious conviviality of our time; building a...
View ArticleSunday Notes (Blanchot, Quignard, Acquisitions)
“The aim here is simply to test out to what extent it is possible to follow a text and at the same time to lose track of it, to be simultaneously the person it understands and the person who...
View ArticleA Baroque Reader
In an interview that eludes my current search, Pascal Quignard once proclaimed, “I am a Baroque artist. I seek intensity of emotion by any means necessary. I am not a classicist, I do not seek...
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