A Freedom Glimpsed and Elusive
Melville turned the sea into an impossible freedom: a promise of revelation, condemnation, and permanence.
Essays
Freedom
Loose Pages
Confessions of a Dilettante
Far from its pejorative connotation, the figure of the dilettante embraces with passion and freedom the enjoyment of the arts and sensory pleasures, regardless of professional or academic rigidity.
Loose Pages
The Fish out of Water
A reflection on the trauma of compulsory military service and the challenges of exile.
Bouquiphiles
Reading to Escape
I read to save myself. I read everything, Greek theater and Sholokhov’s trash. Marcel Proust and the terrifying Chapaiev.