tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77183868607918707532012-01-29T19:29:03.295ZA Piece of Monologue is an independent website that discusses literature, film, philosophy and contemporary issues in critical theory.Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comBlogger12201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-52708227829537031782012-01-28T12:27:00.001Z2012-01-28T12:30:25.163Z

A collection of largely unseen Burroughs photographs William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in London, 1972. Photo: Charles Gatewood If you're a fan of William S. Burroughs and the photographer Charles Gatewood, oh, and if you have $3,000 to spare, you might be interested in Burroughs 23. Essentially, it's a 'deluxe artist's book' by Charles Gatewood, published back in 2011 by Dana Dana Dana in

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Picador re-issues titles by DeLillo, Ellis, McCarthy, Bolaño and others Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses John Banville, The Sea Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho Don DeLillo, White Noise Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives To celebrate Picador’s 40th anniversary, the publisher is re-issuing 12 of its classic fiction titles. [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue:

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New York Magazine interviews controversial American novelist Marla Hanson, Jay McInerney, and Ellis at a New York party for a movie premiere in 1990. Photo: Catherine McGann/Getty Images In an interview with Carl Swanson of New York Magazine, Bret Easton Ellis talks about Imperial Bedrooms, the sequel to his debut novel Less Than Zero: 'I did not want to write a sequel to Less Than Zero,

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Video interview conducted in 2011 American novelist Bret Easton Ellis discusses the legacy of his most controversial novel. The interviewer is a little on the aggressive side, but Ellis' responses are interesting nonetheless.

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Is literature a work of disappearance? As part of The Guardian website's 'In Theory' series, Andrew Gallix discusses the role of contemporary literature, and the work of Tom McCarthy, Lee Rourke and Lars Iyer: 'By this token, the novels of Tom McCarthy, Lee Rourke and Iyer himself are not so much evidence of a nouveau roman revival as instances of a new type of hauntological fiction which

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Two novels reprinted by Dalkey Archive Press William Gaddis, The Recognitions (left) and William Gaddis, J R (right) Superfluities Redux reports that two William Gaddis novels, The Recognitions and J R, will be republished next month by the Dalkey Archive Press. The site uses this news as an opportunity to post other material on Gaddis, including a 2010 post about his work, and a link to

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What was it like to be Sigmund Freud's wife? Sigmund Freud with his wife, Martha Bernays Freud (center), and her sister, Minna Bernays (left) in 1929. Jenny Diski reviews Katja Behling's Martha Freud: A Biography (translated by R.D.V. Glasgow) in the London Review of Books: In the membership roll of the worshipful guild of enabling wives, the name of Martha Freud ranks with the

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A public appearance to promote his new book, Men in Space On Saturday 25 February 2012 at 7pm, Tom McCarthy will be appearing at 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street, New York City [Read More]

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A free online e-book John R. W. Speller, Bourdieu and Literature The following is a press release from Open Book Publishers, an Open-Access publishing platform makes literature and criticism publications available free of charge: Open Book Publishers has recently published Bourdieu and Literature. It is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between

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A free online e-book Göran Printz-Påhlson, Letters of Blood and Other Works in English (translated by Robert Archambeau) The following is a press release from Open Book Publishers, an Open-Access publishing platform makes literature and criticism publications available free of charge: Letters of Blood and Other Works in English from Open Book Publishers (www.openbookpublishers.com) is a

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Documentary first broadcast in 2006 Also at A Piece of Monologue: Writers: J. G. Ballard

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An interview with Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Cynthia Haven's excellent blog, The Book Haven, hosted on the Stanford University website, has posted an extract from an interview with the late Chilean poet and novelist Roberto Bolaño (link via Daniel Medin): Which authors would you number among your precursors? Borges? Cortázar? Nicanor Parra? Neruda? Kafka? In Tres you write: “I dreamt

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The International Anthony Burgess Foundation celebrates landmark anniversary Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange: A Multi-Disciplinary Conference 28 June to 1 July 2012 To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962), the International Anthony Burgess Foundation is holding a multi-disciplinary conference to examine its profound and enduring

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A new title from Continuum Seán Sheehan, Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed Another interesting new title from Continuum: 'One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek’s work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely influential

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One of a new series of reference dictionaries published by Continuum Ian Fraser and Lawrence Wilde, The Marx Dictionary A recent publication from Continuum has just caught my eye: 'The Marx Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Karl Marx. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences

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Alain de Botton argues that art should be less ambiguous. Is he right? Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at London's Tate Modern. Source. Are art galleries the new churches? Alain de Botton seems to think so. In a recent online article for The Guardian, he implies that galleries have become a contemporary congregation point for atheists and agnostics. Is this really true? I'm not so

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Annotations from The Atrocity Exhibition Vatican Museum Stairs, Rome. Photograph: Jenna Lee An extract from J. G. Ballard's 1990 annotations to his experimental 1970 novel, The Atrocity Exhibition: All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and

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Interview with the American filmmaker, artist and musician David Lynch, Crazy Clown Time David Lynch talks to Mike Doherty of Salon.com about his new album, Crazy Clown Time, how he writes his music, and why he thinks brutality can be funny (link via 3:AM Magazine): 'In Frank Booth [the nightmarish villain played by Dennis Hopper], in "Blue Velvet,” I saw so much humor, and many times, I

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Reassessing the Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock collaboration Saul Bass, frames from title sequence for Psycho (1960, directed by Alfred Hitchcock). The following is an excerpt from Pat Kirkham's interesting article in Design Observer (link via 3:AM Magazine): In the case of Psycho Hitchcock involved Bass from the earliest stage. They had several meetings before writing began,

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Hurt interviewed on the Charlie Rose show John Hurt in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape In December 2011, John Hurt spoke to Charlie Rose about reprising the role of Krapp in Samuel Beckett's play, Krapp's Last Tape. The interview is freely accessible, and available to watch online (thanks to Brian Bush for providing the link) [Watch the interview] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Writers:

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Exploring the influence of Oriental culture on eighteenth century writing Srinivas Aravamudan, Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel The following is taken from a press release for Srinivas Aravamudan's new book, Enlightenment Orientalism, published by Chicago University Press: Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies,

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First publication from the Contra Mundum Press Gilgamesh, translated by Stuart Kendall Contra Mundum Press is announcing that their first publication, Gilgamesh, should be entering online databases by the end of this month. The text was translated by Stuart Kendall, who has also translated Baudrillard, Bataille, Blanchot, Éluard and others. Aside from his many translations of Bataille

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Online magazine supporting persecuted writers Sampsonia Way is an online magazine sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh celebrating literary free expression and supporting persecuted writers worldwide. Their website is structured around an open-access magazine, with optional donations, and a regularly updated blog, SW Daily. [Read More]

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'Orlando is the book to put under your pillow and rest upon.' Tilda Swinton in Orlando (dir. Sally Potter, 1992) In an article for The Telegraph, Tilda Swinton writes about Virginia Woolf's Orlando, the impact the novel had on her personal life, and her experiences playing the title role in Sally Potter's 1992 adaptation (link via Lauren Elkin): 'I was at school near Sevenoaks, within a short

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Wallace read and annotated novels by Don DeLillo, Jorge Luis Borges, and others Inside cover of David Foster Wallace's annotated copy of Players by Don DeLillo. Photo: Harry Ransom Center Inside cover of David Foster Wallace's annotated copy of Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo. Photo: Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, offers a few sneak peeks from their archive

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A rare glimpse at the early stages of Beckett's second novel The first manuscript notebook of Watt signed and marked 'Watt I' The first page of the second manuscript notebook of Watt The first page of the third manuscript notebook of Watt The first page of the fourth manuscript notebook of Watt Maria Popova of Brain Pickings has posted some wonderful glimpses into the manuscripts

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A new guide to one of the most difficult contemporary philosophers Jacques Derrida In this week's Times Literary Supplement (6 January 2012), Neil Badmington reviews Derrida: A very short introduction by Simon Glendinning: Glendinning's overview is accurate and informed, and the book covers many of the key terms: logocentrism, aporia, and grammatology, for example. I have a reservation,

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On academia, Google Book Search and the future of electronic publishing Professor Robert Darnton at Harvard University The following is an extract from an interview I conducted with Professor Robert Darnton on 5 December 2011. Darnton is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard and Director of the Harvard University Library. In 1999, he served as President

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What do people think of DeLillo's first short story collection? Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories The online resource Don DeLillo's America has compiled a series of reviews for the author's first short story collection, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. The stories themselves span a large chunk of the writer's career, from 1979 to 2011, and have drawn reviewers from the Los

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An excerpt from Between Parentheses Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño on searching for the lost books of one's past: 'To search for those copies or similar copies, the same font, the same layout, the same plot, the dark or bright syntax, somehow forces me to remember a time when I was young and poor and careless, though I know that the same copies, the exact same ones, will never be found, and

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New study marks the 120th anniversary of Benjamin's birth Eli Friedlander, Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait In the Haaretz Daily Newspaper, Avner Shapira discusses a forthcoming work from Eli Friedlander, Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait (link via Leiter Reports): 'Contrary to the prevailing view, which holds that Benjamin was more a cultural and literary critic than a

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Video interview with the Russian director Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky is interviewed about his work, and his attitudes and opinions toward art (link via Mark Thwaite's excellent Ready Steady Book).

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New book explores the themes raised by Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Geoff Dyer has written a book exploring the themes of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 science fiction film Stalker.  The publisher, Canongate Books, reveals that the film has 'obsessed' Dyer all of his adult

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Rick Poynor on Saul Leiter's photographic work Saul Leiter, '463' (1956) Saul Leiter, 'Bus' (1954) Saul Leiter, 'T' (1950) Saul Leiter, 'Snow' (1960) Writing for Creative Review, Rick Poynor reflects on the typographic fragment in the photography of American artist Saul Leiter: 'Saul Leiter’s early color photographs, unseen for many years, must surely rank as one of the great

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Written for the 100th Bloomsday in 2004 In a June 1994 article for Vanity Fair, the late Christopher Hitchens reflects on James Joyce's classic modernist novel, Ulysses, in celebration of its centenary (link via Times Flow Stemmed): 'A surly English overseer is standing at the entrance to a construction site in London. It’s a filthy, wet day. He sees approaching him a shabby figure, with clay

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Barthes' travel diary translated into English with 'meticulous' annotations Roland Barthes, Travels in China In a recent edition of the Times Literary Supplement (22 December 2011), Neil Badmington reviews Roland Barthes' Travels in China, edited by Anne Herschberg Pierrot and translated by Andrew Brown: Barthes planned to write about the trip, and Travels in China reproduces notes that

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In his recent work, Will Self fuses literary influence with biographical memoir Will Self Will-Self.com reports that The Independent has named Will Self's Walking to Hollywood its paperback of the year. Awarding the book five stars, the review draws attention to the new influence of W. G. Sebald on Self's writing: The three essays collected in Walking to Hollywood are non-fictional

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Samuel Beckett and Lars Iyer among those celebrated The excellent cultural resource that is 3:AM Magazine has announced the winners of the 3:AM Awards 2011. Lars Iyer's Spurious picked up a gong for best novel of the year, while the second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters (1941-1956) won for best non-fiction. An announcement of all the winners, which includes categories for film,

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A partial record of the writer's contacts in Paris Image via Susan Tomaselli [Source] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Walter Benjamin, Early Writings 1910-1917 Walter Benjamin's Library Card Peter Mendelsund's Book Cover Designs

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Online jazz resource gets a fresh new look Jazz music has long been a passion of mine. I listen to almost anything I can get my hands on, from the earliest New Orleans music, to swing, fusion, free jazz, bebop and beyond. Some readers might be aware that I maintain a second website dedicated to my interest, named One Down, One Up (after a John Coltrane side). As the site enters its fourth

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Steve King on the first of a three-volume memoir Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol.1 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol.2 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol.3 Steve King on the first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago: 'The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was published in Paris on

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Acclaimed translators read from their new collaboration Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky The American University of Paris is now hosting free audio content online. The first posting is a series of readings by acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky: 'Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, renowned translators of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Gogol, Pasternak,

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'The dark side of this most respectable suspense writer.' Daphne du Maurier, The Doll: The Lost Short Stories Anna Mundow reviews Daphne du Maurier's The Doll: The Lost Short Stories: 'Daphne du Maurier's best-known novel, Rebecca, is a romantic swoon of a book that opens with the famous incantation, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." It is also a sadomasochistic nightmare

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How painters in the 15th and 16th centuries played with perspective Hans Holbein the Younger, 'The Ambassadors' (1533). Photo: National Gallery/Corbis Jonathan Jones on Renaissance art and its revolutionary approach to perspective [Read More]

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'Kafka at his most beautiful and, perhaps, his most emotional.' William Burrows lists Franz Kafka's The Castle as an essential 'Winter read' [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Writers: Franz Kafka

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American abstract painter dies, aged 83 Helen Frankenthaler The New York Times has reported that abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler has passed away, aged 83 (link via Critical Cookie) [Read More]

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Melville House art director on designing the Last Interview series Christopher King, art director at Melville House, discusses the process of designing book covers for their Last Interview series (link via Millions Millions): 'Starting a new series design is always a fun challenge—each book in the series needs to stand on its own, but the set should add up to more than the sum of its parts.

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French philosopher reflects on what makes us human Source: National Geographic In a brief excerpt, Jacques Derrida reflects on what constitutes human identity, and challenges our assumptions of sovereignty in the animal kingdom (link via Brain Pickings): None of the traits by which the most authorized philosophy or culture has thought it possible to recognize this ‘proper of man’ — none

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A new biography of the Dutch painter Self portrait by Vincent Van Gogh William Feaver reviews Van Gogh: The Life, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, that seeks to correct the myths and misconceptions surrounding the great painter: 'Time now, it's reasonable to expect, for an out-and-out corrective: a Van Gogh biography exhaustive enough to recalibrate everything ever written by or

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New attempts to protect Wilde's burial place from lipstick marks and written inscriptions Photograph: Tomas van Houtryve for The New York Times From The New York Times website: 'Recently, descendants of Wilde, the Irish dramatist and wit who died here in 1900, decided to have his immense gravestone cleansed of a vast accumulation of lipstick markings from kisses left by admirers, who for

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Snapshots of the cultural history of Los Angeles Photograph: Julius Schulman (© J. Paul Getty Trust, Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Sam Lubell and Douglas Woods, Rizzoli New York, 2011) Photograph: Julius Schulman. (© J. Paul Getty Trust, Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Sam Lubell and Douglas Woods, Rizzoli New York, 2011)

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Auster to release second memoir Paul Auster The Bookseller is reporting that Paul Auster is to publish a second memoir: 'In Auster's début work The Invention of Solitude, first published in 1982, he wrote about his late father. By contrast, Winter Journal will concentrate on Auster's mother, including her struggle as a single mother after divorce, the short-lived love she found late in life

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Interview with French existentialist philosopher, Albert Camus Albert Camus talks about his stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Possessed (also known as The Devils, or Demons) in 1959. (Source: European Graduate School on Facebook.) Also at A Piece of Monologue: Camus Car Crash Conspiracy Albert Camus' the Outsider: Illustrated On Albert Camus The Guardian's Top Ten Absurdist

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Poet, playwright and politician dies aged 75 Václav Havel Czech playwright, poet, dissident and former president Václav Havel has died aged 75. He is known to many as the leader of the 1989 'Velvet Revolution'. Many readers of this site will be aware that Samuel Beckett's 1982 play Catastrophe was dedicated to Havel's political struggle. Julian Borger has paid tribute in an obituary for The

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5 April - 12 May The following is a press release for Simon Godwin's production of Harold Pinter's A Kind Of Alaska and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, coming to Bristol from May to April 2012: This Spring, we invite you to witness a major theatrical event. Two short plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter in a rare pairing that brings together two of the most influential writers

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George Hunka on Samuel Beckett and Krapp's Last Tape Dun Laoghaire Pier, Dublin, Ireland. Photograph: Patrick Naughton At Superfluities Redux, George Hunka explores the way Samuel Beckett used biographical experiences in his work after 1946: 'Beckett and Krapp are of course not equivalent (when he wrote the play, Beckett was much closer to the 39-year-old Krapp than he was to the 69-

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Free online resource Stephen Mitchelmore has drawn my attention to naturalthinker.net, a website that hosts The Book of the Judge, a collection of Søren Kierkegaard's journals and papers presented in English [Read More]

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Call for Papers · University of Amsterdam, 10-13 May 2012 Marx and the Aesthetic University of Amsterdam, 10-13 May  2012 The aim of this conference is twofold: on the one hand, to analyse the role of the aesthetic in the writings of Marx and, on the other, to examine works of art and literature which are based on, or have been directly inspired by, Marx’s writings. At the core of this

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New book showcases Lynch's drawings from 1960s to present day One of many untitled sketches by David Lynch. Photograph: Steidl/Fondation Cartier The Guardian presents an online gallery of sketches and doodles from David Lynch's new book, Works on Paper, a collection of over 500 of his drawings spanning back to the 1960s. The book is published by Steidl. [See More] Also at A Piece of

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London exhibition open until 18 February 2012 David Hockney, 'Man in a Museum (Or You're In the Wrong Movie)' (1962) The Guardian celebrates the opening of a new exhibition, The Mystery of Appearance at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London, with some examples from its collection. Their online gallery includes a Lucien Freud sketch of Francis Bacon, and works by David Hockney, Euan Uglow,

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Modern Language Association celebrates first volume of Beckett's correspondence The American University of Paris is reporting that the first volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters, spanning the years 1929-1940, is to win a Modern Language Association (MLA) award: 'This is the most prestigious current academic prize for an edition of letters. Huge congratulations to our own Dan Gunn, of course, but

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Critical responses to reprised production of Beckett play John Hurt in the Gate Theatre’s production of Krapp’s Last Tape. Photograph: Anthony Woods Critics are lining up to praise John Hurt's return to Samuel Beckett's work. Reprising the role of Krapp in Krapp's Last Tape, Hurt is currently starring in a production at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre in Washington DC. Sophie

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The Guardian asks McCarthy how he uses his computer Tom McCarthy's computer desktop Ben Johncock interviews writer and artist Tom McCarthy about his computer desktop for The Guardian website [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Tom McCarthy on Film, Art and Writerly Advice Tom McCarthy on Friedrich Kittler Tom McCarthy on Gerhard Richter

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Extracts from novels, essays and short story collections available online From Will-Self.com: 'Bloomsbury have recently produced some beautifully presented and highly readable online excerpts of Will Self’s books published by them. Each excerpt provides the first chapter if it’s a novel or a couple of essays if it’s a collection of journalism. It’s a great way to get a feel for each book.' Titles

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A free public lecture available onlineOn 29 November 2011, Simon Critchley presented a lecture at the London Graduate School entitled 'Do it, England (The Hamlet Doctrine, Part I)'. Thanks to Backdoor Broadcasting, you can listen to the lecture in its entirety on their website, along with an introduction by Professor Martin McQuillan (Kingston). [Listen] Also at A Piece of Monologue:

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Assuming Gender Annual Lecture · Cardiff University, 14 December 2011 Click to download poster (PDF) Some readers of A Piece of Monologue may be aware that I am on the editorial committee of Assuming Gender, an academic project founded and organized by postgraduates. The project is structured around three research-led pursuits: a freely-accessible academic journal, an ongoing seminar

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A new collection of Sebald's poetry W. G. Sebald, Across the Land and Water The Economist reviews a new collection of W. G. Sebald's poetry (link via Ready Steady Book): 'Across the Land and the Water brings together a selection of the poems he never published in book form, if at all. Translated by Iain Galbraith, the volume sketches out a life on the move. Stretching over 37 years, the

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Memento, a programme first aired in 1993 In a 1993 interview, Joan Bakewell talks to writer J.G. Ballard about his life and work, and asks him to talk specifically about objects that have meant something special to him. [Source] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Writers: J. G. Ballard John Gray and Will Self on J. G. Ballard

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J. G. Ballard, Cities, Suburbs and Edgelands · Bristol Watershed, 1 December 2011 Bristol at night. (Source) J. G. Ballard was a writer who ‘saw terror and poetry in the city landscape’ and who loved edgelands. Whether it was writing about Shanghai, modern Britain, the suburbs, shopping centres, modern architecture, Ballard made a ‘Ballardian’ world, defined as ‘dystopian modernity, bleak

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The table where Virginia Woolf sat down to write A garden of one's own. Virginia Woolf's writing table at Monk’s House, Sussex, England, 1967. Photo by Gisele Freund. (Source) Also at A Piece of Monologue: Virginia Woolf, On Fiction Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf on Writing and Money Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf Corrected Proof: Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse Is

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A new collection of essays from Virginia Woolf John Dugdale reviews On Fiction, a collection of four essays by Virginia Woolf, published by Hesperus Press (link via 3:AM Magazine): 'This collection of four essays, all but one from the 20s, improves markedly as it goes along.' [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf on Writing and Money

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Josipovici on Beckett's 'years of intensity' Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Gabriel Josipovici reviews the second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters (1941-1956) [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Writers: Samuel Beckett TLS reviews Beckett Letters 1941-1956 George Craig, Writing Beckett's Letters Dan Gunn on Samuel Beckett's Letters Samuel Beckett's Reading List 1941-1956

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Woody Allen attempts syllogistic logic A brief clip from Love and Death, courtesy of Biblioklept. Also at A Piece of Monologue: Celebrity Bookshelves Woody Allen: Films Outside New York Woody Allen's Favourite Books

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Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York hosts Samuel Beckett adaptations Marcello Magni in Peter Brook's Fragments, an adaptation of five Samuel Beckett texts performing off-Broadway at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York Jennifer Farrar reviews Peter Brook's Fragments, a theatrical adaptation of five short texts by Samuel Beckett: Peter Brook has written that Samuel Beckett was falsely

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Werner Herzog on Truman Capote, violent crimes and capital punishment Andrew Goldman interviews Werner Herzog in the New York Times about Into the Abyss, a new documentary film exploring capital punishment in the United States [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Conquest of the Useless: Werner Herzog on Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog's

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Times Literary Supplement weighs in on Cambridge University Press' second volume Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Arts Theatre, London, 1955 Alan Jenkins reviews the second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters (1941-1956) on the TLS website, alongside a discussion of translator George Craig's monograph, Writing Beckett's Letters: 'One of the last of Samuel Beckett’s letters in Volume One

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The aura that surrounds the ‘Derrida of the digital age’ Friedrich Kittler Tom McCarthy writes on the aura of Friedrich Kittler in the London Review of Books blog: 'In 2004, after I gave an artist’s talk in a gallery in Berlin, a group of people strode up to speak to me. They were, they told me, followers of the media theorist Friedrich Kittler, members of his entourage – or, to give it its

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On the second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters, 1941-1956 Stephen Mitchelmore draws connections between Beckett's writing and its wider French intellectual context: 'Soon Beckett’s stipulation that only letters with a bearing on his work can be published will be repeated as often as Kafka’s request to Max Brod. The difference is that we may regret Beckett’s executors were not so disloyal. What

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Max: a Celebration · 14 December 2011 Photograph: David Gibbeson Ready Steady Book has drawn attention to a forthcoming event, celebrating the work of writer W. G. Sebald: 'On the 10th anniversary of his death, a unique event celebrating the late, great writer W.G. Max Sebald; with Anthea Bell, Ian Bostridge, A.S. Byatt, Julius Drake (tbc), Ian Galbraith, Dan Gretton, Grant Gee, Rachel

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Editor discusses his involvement in the ambitious project This Side of the Pond, the blog of the Cambridge University Press in North America, is featuring an interview with one of the editors of Samuel Beckett's Letters: 'Dan Gunn, co-editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 2: 1941-1956 discusses Beckett’s relationship to fame, his engagement with the French language, and his

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Online blog compiles a list of the texts Beckett found interesting Beckett on Camus' (pictured) novel, The Stranger: 'Try and read it, I think it is important' This Side of the Pond, the blog of Cambridge University Press in North America, has compiled a list of Samuel Beckett's reading material from the latest edition of the Letters (1941-1956): Andromaque by Jean Racine: “I read

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Penderecki's music has been used to score a number of horror classics Jack Nicholson stars in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) Tom Service writes: 'If you've seen Stanley Kubrick's The Shining more than a couple of times, or if you've been renewing your relationship with William Friedkin's The Exorcist over Halloween; if you've enjoyed Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island or marvelled at

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University of Southampton · 7-9 September 2012 Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Roger Pic Samuel Beckett Working Group University of Southampton 7-9 September 2012 The Samuel Beckett Working Group will be meeting at three different locations in 2012: at the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference in Chile in July (contact Linda Ben-Zvi: lindabz@post.tau.ac.il),

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Call for Papers: The third issue of Limit(e) Beckett The intellectual, social and political climate of post-war France was explosive. From Charles de Gaulle to the May ’68 protests, from Bataille and Blanchot to existentialism and the difficult post-war reception of Heidegger, from the painful legacy of the war to the slow trickle of revelations about the Holocaust, from the Nouveau Roman

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University College Dublin · 13-14 July 2012 Beckett and the State of Ireland Conference Irish Beckett – Global Beckett University College Dublin 13-14 July 2012 Famous throughout civilised world and Irish Free State Samuel Beckett, Murphy Somewhere on the Ballyogan Road in lieu of nowhere in particular Samuel Beckett, Company Call for Papers Samuel Beckett’s relationship to his

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Lynch talks to Xan Brooks about life after film David Lynch in Paris. Photograph: Hugo Mayer Xan Brooks of The Guardian interviews David Lynch about the death of film, meditation, coffee, and his recent album, Crazy Clown Time [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Inside David Lynch's Club Silencio, Paris Is David Lynch Retiring from Film? Will Self Interviews David Lynch

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New issue of free online academic journal now available Assuming Gender is a Cardiff University project, comprising a journal, seminar, and lecture series. This interdisciplinary project is dedicated to the timely analysis of constructions of gendered texts, practices, and subjectivities and seeks to engage with contemporary conceptions of gender, while participating in the

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Brown University in Rhode Island · 29 March - 1 April 2012 Photograph: Ralph Gibson Panel Title: Post – : Remembering, Binding, Afterness Conference: American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2012 Location: Brown University in Rhode Island Date of Conference: 29 March - 1 April 2012 Conference Title: Collapse/Catastrophe/Change Organizers: Natalie Strobach and Michael Graziano

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An extract from 'Marx's Three Voices' Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophical manuscripts of 1844 From Maurice Blanchot's essay, 'Les Trois Paroles de Marx' in L'Amitié (translated from the French by Leslie Hill): The example of Marx helps us to understand that the language of writing, which is a language of ceaseless contestation, must constantly be developed and interrupted in multiple

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French philosopher on the problems of using 'proper names' Photograph: Wiener library Excerpt from an interview with Jacques Derrida, conducted by Dr. Michal Ben-Naftali on 8 January 1998 (translated from the French by Dr. Moshe Ron): Interviewer: Until now I have been asking questions as if Deconstruction, your philosophy of history and historicity, is indeed a response to Auschwitz.

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Self embarks on a series of 'radial walks' around London Will Self. Photograph: Casey Kelbaugh. Will Self writes: 'In the first few years of the last decade I undertook a series of what I called – with a nod to Iain Sinclair’s circumambulation of London – ‘radial walks’. These were tramps of between three and five days from my home near the city’s centre out into its hinterland, following

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International conference at the University of York · 23-25 March 2012 Sculpture of James Joyce, by Mikhail Iakovlev “Outside his jurisfiction”: Interrogating Joyce’s non-fiction writings International conference at the University of York 23-25 March 2012 About the Conference Kevin Barry’s James Joyce: Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing contains over fifty pieces ranging

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Renowned Beckett scholar passes away, aged 89 Ruby Cohn. Photograph: Linda Ben-Zvi. George Hunka writes: 'Ruby Cohn, whose Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut (1962) established her as the foremost first-generation Beckett critic and introduced Beckett’s work to a huge general audience, passed away on Tuesday 18 October at the age of 89. Ms. Cohn spent most of her professional career as one of

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Malta, November 2009 James Corby (University of Malta) interviews Simon Critchley (New School) by video link during the Style in Theory / Styling Theory conference in Malta in November 2009 (link via Continental Philosophy). Topics under discussion included the writing of Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Wallace Stevens, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Tom McCarthy, Michel de Montaigne, and

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Jeremy Paxman interviews David Cronenberg on BBC Newsnight Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg discusses depictions of violence, Gadaffi's death, Freud and his new film A Dangerous Method on BBC Newsnight (contains footage some may find disturbing). Also at A Piece of Monologue: David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method: Official Trailer (HD)

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After 50 years, rare dramatic fragment found in the British Library Harold Pinter The Guardian website has published a rare fragment by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter. Discovered at the British Library, 'Umbrellas' was performed only once as part of a revue in 1960. [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Harold Pinter on meeting Samuel Beckett Harold Pinter in Krapp's Last Tape

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Irish writer travels to Prague to accept the Kafka Society's award John Banville holding the Franz Kafka Prize. Photograph © ČTK John Banville reflects on winning the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize in Prague (link via Michael Orthofer): '“It would have astonished Kafka that a fellow writer would have been standing in City Hall to collect an award in his name,” Banville said. “And he would

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Poems read by Yeats, dating from 1931 to 1937 William Butler Yeats. Photograph: Edward Steichen. Hear rare MP3 recordings of Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats, courtesy of PennSound (link via Ubu Web) [Listen] Also at A Piece of Monologue: PJ Harvey on Pinter, Joyce and Yeats R. F. Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances W. B. Yeats and Modernism Freud and Yeats on

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Stephen King, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Will Self contribute Granta, Autumn 2011. Cover design: The Chapman Brothers. The Autumn 2011 issue of Granta includes pieces from a number of distinguished writers: 'Horror is everywhere - in cinema, in fiction, in real life. In this issue Paul Auster writes about the death of his mother, Will Self on his own rare blood-disease, and Mark Doty on

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Iconic photographer passes away, aged 80 Bob Dylan. Photograph: Barry Feinstein. Bob Dylan. Photograph: Barry Feinstein. Barry Feinstein, iconic photographer known for his images of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Elvis Presley and many others has passed away, aged 80 [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Bob Dylan to release Chronicles II and III Joyce Carol Oates on Bob

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