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The book begins by familiarizing readers with Moravia and its Jewish communities. Here the author demonstrates his knowledge of Habsburg history and a penchant for catchy sound bites, such as: “If the privilege of 1629 was Moravian Jewry’s Magna
11 Φεβ 2015 · Ben Lerner's critically acclaimed new novel, 10:04, opens with the narrator walking along High Line Park in Manhattan with his literary agent after having shared a meal of baby octopus "massaged to death" in salt, and he experiences a "succession of images, sensations and memories" which don't belong to him, but to the octopus: polarized light ...
The two books under review here thus make a substantial contribution to the growing literature on culture under the Nazis: Baird’s by exploring an area into which few scholars have ever ventured, and Strobl’s by offering a fresh
2 Σεπ 2014 · In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater.
book, the author specifies that she intends to link the genesis and evolution of the mu-seum of natural sciences in Italy between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centu-ries to the development of natural history as a discipline. This decision allows Findlen to overcome the vast gulf which has often separated the scientist from the amateur
2 Ιουν 2015 · 10:04 Ben Lerner cover, from March 2015 book review An octopus, whether as sociable life-form, delicacy or mode of perception, is a recurring image in Ben Lerner’s second novel, a story within a story that tells the tale of its own creation in the overlapping realms of autobiography and fiction, where ‘everything is as it is now, just a ...
22 Ιαν 2015 · Named for the moment in Back to the Future when lightning strikes the famous DeLorean, 10:04 is a longer, non-chronological work about a New York-based writer having difficulty completing his second novel after the unexpected success of his first.
