Category Archives: literature

Inscribed inevitability: Jessica Au’s ‘Cold Enough for Snow’

Posted on 04/11/2022 by lexipenia

Jessica Au’s novella Cold Enough for Snow (New Directions, 2022) is a delightfully executed miniature that depicts the distance between a mother and daughter through the latter’s recollection of a shared journey to Japan. The mother remains an opaque mystery … Continue reading →

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Neue Impressionen: Maximilian Gilleßen und Anton Stuckardt sprechen über ihr Verlagsprojekt ‚zero sharp’

Posted on 05/02/2018 by lexipenia

Maximilian Gilleßen ist Übersetzer und zusammen mit dem Buchgestalter Anton Stuckardt Begründer des Berliner Verlags zero sharp. Ihr Interesse gilt AutorInnen der französischen Avantgarde. So sind bisher Bände von Raymond Roussel, Jean-Pierre Brisset, Gaston de Pawlowski und René Daumal erschienen. Seit Juli … Continue reading →

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Joshua Cohen in Berlin: An Interview

Posted on 07/01/2018 by lexipenia

Joshua Cohen is an American writer. He is author of five novels, including Witz (2010), Book of Numbers (2015) and, most recently, Moving Kings (2017), as well as numerous short stories and non-fiction pieces. He has worked as a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, … Continue reading →

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The irreducible significance of literature: David Wellbery on Goethe, Cavell and de Man

Posted on 26/12/2017 by lexipenia

David E. Wellbery is LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson Professor at University of Chicago, where he chairs the Department of Germanic Studies and is a member of the Committee on Social Thought. A renowned scholar of the German tradition, … Continue reading →

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Literature Away from Home: Jake Schneider on Translation, Little Magazines and More

Posted on 26/12/2017 by lexipenia

Jake Schneider is the editor-in-chief of SAND, Berlin’s English literary journal. His translation of Ron Winkler’s poetry collection Fragmentierte Gewässer (Fragmented Waters) was released by Shearsman Books last October. He works as a freelance translator from German to English. Interview by Chris Fenwick SAND is … Continue reading →

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Ernst, Tragisch, Problematisch – Guido Mazzoni on Late Capitalism and the Theory of the Novel

Posted on 07/02/2017 by lexipenia

Guido Mazzoni is a poet, essayist and a founding editor of Le parole e le cose, Italy’s leading cultural webzine. He is a professor at the University of Siena. In 2011 he published Teoria del romanzo, which has now been … Continue reading →

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Zwischen Überlieferung und Kritik: Moderne und Postmoderne Haltungen gegenüber dem Problem der Legitimität

Posted on 06/10/2014 by lexipenia

An old conference paper of mine in German is now available in the online journal Paedeia, vol.2 (Spring 2014), 88–104. It’s not the greatest piece of writing, but may be of interest to some. Here’s a link.

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Le vagabondage de la raison : Proust et la pensée de l’essai selon Adorno

Posted on 10/08/2014 by lexipenia

I’ve got an article appearing in the Bulletin d’informations proustiennes this October discussing Proust’s essayism in relation to Adorno. PDF of the proofs for anyone interested.

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‘The Novel Today’: Panel discussion with Mikhail Shishkin, Yoko Tawada, Georg Klein

Posted on 05/06/2014 by lexipenia

In January this year I hosted a panel discussion with the writers Mikahil Shishkin, Yoko Tawada and Georg Klein about various aspects of the novel. A video of the event is finally available (German with English subtitles), though Frau Tawada’s … Continue reading →

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“How Should a Person Be?”: Sheila Heti’s imaginative philosophy

Posted on 07/04/2014 by lexipenia

I have a piece up at The Point on “imaginative philosophy” in Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? This is an attempt to put into practice the kind of reading implied by Cora Diamond’s work on meta-ethics and literature, … Continue reading →

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