Poet, novelist, essayist, art writer. The last freelancer.
Reading book two of the Life of Rancé in the bath this evening, with quiet joy I recognized a small sentence that Roland Barthes once cited in his essay on Chateaubriand’s last book. Some months previously I had read Barthes’beautiful preface with such attentive enthusiasm that although I
An Archive, 2019-2024 (thumbnail sketches of books being read, composed on the fly as Instagram captions Sur le style de Flaubert, Marcel Proust. Editions Sillage, Paris 2014 To talk about style, Proust focuses closely on the use of the past perfect tense, and on the way Flaubert uses prepositions and
Agnes Varda and I met in late afternoon at her studio on the Rue Daguerre, the place she has so thoroughly occupied with her life and her creativity for 61 years. The rooms were small, filled with plants, images, activity, ringing telephones, young assistants, stacks of papers and videos and
“this dusty floor the uneasy sea” Virginia Woolf We’re all of us the fallen material of some dream or another. Whose dreams dreamt us? Like the houses built from the fallen materials of old walls crumbled, and the walls built of the fallen material of razed houses or long
Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Baroque Reason "... for Benjamin "the political" was always overdetermined and never had an autonomous existence. It was deployed in a network of metaphors and myths, in a plurality of languages which held together its extreme moments of violence and the "complementary world" of
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