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The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque9 reviews
Gilles Deleuze

University of Minnesota Press, 1992

one of Deleuze's very best

+ On the Translation
+ Between Two Worlds
+ A Refined Work of Philosophy
+ A Key of sorts
  
  











  



  
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber11 reviews
Nicholson Baker

Vintage, 1997

Books, wood, lumber, libraries

+ IT'S NOT WHAT BUT HOW HE SAYS WHAT HE SAYS . . .
+ Lumber!

Which brings us to the book of the month: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker. With all this travel and displacement, I didn't read that much in the past month except for a few scant pages of this or that book, or leafing though New York Girls, or the Doris Kloster ...
  
  











  



  
The Stream of Life (Emergent Literature)3 reviews
Clarice Lispector

University of Minnesota Press, 1989

I'm Scared That I Don't Find This All That Difficult

+ The Continuous Stream of Being
+ startling and beautiful; one of my favorite books

And that nobody has reviewed this piece for four years and I'm only the third one ever to do it. Maybe I've read too much Joyce, Cixous, Beckett, Celan, Kristeva, et al, but I am surprised to see all the reviews on this page refer to this piece's difficulty. It's ecriture feminine along the line ...
  
  











  



  
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle57 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Vintage, 1990

Ada, our ardors and arbors

+ Between the ha-ha an Aroma of Antiterra
+ more please

"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle", Nabokov's longest novel, is also, indisputably, his most involute. Without having read his entire oeuvre (nearly half-way through!) I can still assert this with confidence - and I'm sure most Nabokov fans would concur. Those who have read "Lolita" or "Pale Fire" ...
  
  











  



  
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque9 reviews
Gilles Deleuze

University of Minnesota Press, 1992

one of Deleuze's very best

+ On the Translation
+ Between Two Worlds
+ A Refined Work of Philosophy
+ A Key of sorts
  
  











  



  
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber11 reviews
Nicholson Baker

Vintage, 1997

Books, wood, lumber, libraries

+ IT'S NOT WHAT BUT HOW HE SAYS WHAT HE SAYS . . .
+ Lumber!

Which brings us to the book of the month: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker. With all this travel and displacement, I didn't read that much in the past month except for a few scant pages of this or that book, or leafing though New York Girls, or the Doris Kloster ...
  
  











  



  
The Stream of Life (Emergent Literature)3 reviews
Clarice Lispector

University of Minnesota Press, 1989

I'm Scared That I Don't Find This All That Difficult

+ The Continuous Stream of Being
+ startling and beautiful; one of my favorite books

And that nobody has reviewed this piece for four years and I'm only the third one ever to do it. Maybe I've read too much Joyce, Cixous, Beckett, Celan, Kristeva, et al, but I am surprised to see all the reviews on this page refer to this piece's difficulty. It's ecriture feminine along the line ...
  
  











  



  
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle57 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Vintage, 1990

Ada, our ardors and arbors

+ Between the ha-ha an Aroma of Antiterra
+ more please

"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle", Nabokov's longest novel, is also, indisputably, his most involute. Without having read his entire oeuvre (nearly half-way through!) I can still assert this with confidence - and I'm sure most Nabokov fans would concur. Those who have read "Lolita" or "Pale Fire" ...
  
  











  






   



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