Joyce, or the Forgetting of Ithaca
Joyce condemned the novel to survive as journey, fertile ruin, and reinvented language.
Bouquiphiles
Inquisitions
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Pablo De Cuba Soria
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social skills.
Bouquiphiles
A Letter from T. S. Eliot on the Language of Poetry
In what language does a poet truly write when his voice belongs to more than one?
Bouquiphiles
The Baudelaire Spirit
Charles Baudelaire is the greatest poetic spirit of Western lyricism since the 19th century.
Loose Pages
Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings IV
More diets and food aversions among certain inactive people.
Essays
Proustian I
The Proustian bedroom transforms dreams, objects, and memories into intimate architecture where time becomes style.
Loose Pages
Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings III
Other diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
Loose Pages
Impressions of Amsterdam
A city of restrained order, interiors, and disciplined melancholy.
Essays
Geometry and the Jungle (Notes on the diaries of Valéry and Lezama)
Divergences and convergences between Valéry’s subtractive method and Lezama’s baroque exuberance to show the diary as a machine of thought and metaphysical creation.
Bouquiphiles
Prose from the Wunderkammer II: ‘Ulysses’ (Limited Editions Club, 1935)
A volume that embodies a sublime deception: the clash between Joyce’s avant-garde and the mythical silence of Matisse, who illustrated ‘Ulysses’ without reading it.